:Stanford University

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Stanford University was founded in 1885 by Leland and Jane Stanford as a tribute to the memory of their only child, Leland Stanford Jr. The university officially opened in 1891 on the Stanfords' former Palo Alto farm. Modeled after the great Eastern universities, specifically Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, Stanford was often referred to as the "Cornell of the West" in its early years. This comparison was largely due to a significant portion of its faculty being former Cornell affiliates, including its first president, David Starr Jordan, and its second president, John Casper Branner. Both Cornell and Stanford were among the first to make higher education accessible, non-sectarian, and inclusive of women and men. Cornell is recognized as one of the first American universities to embrace this progressive approach to education, and Stanford quickly followed suit, solidifying its commitment to these ideals.{{cite book |last1=Davis |first1=Margo Baumgartner |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oe0qpzomMwkC&pg=PA14 |title=The Stanford Album: A Photographic History, 1885–1945 |last2=Nilan |first2=Roxanne |date=1989 |publisher=Stanford University Press |isbn=978-0-8047-1639-0 |page=14 |language=en-US}}

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From an architectural perspective, the Stanfords sought to distinguish their university by emulating the style of English university buildings while also incorporating elements of local California heritage. They specified in the founding grant that the buildings should "be like the old adobe houses of the early Spanish days; they will be one-storied; they will have deep window seats and open fireplaces, and the roofs will be covered with the familiar dark red tiles."{{Cite web |date=November 11, 1885 |title=Founding Grant with Amendments |url=https://wasc.stanford.edu/sites/g/files/sbiybj10311/f/foundinggrant.pdf |access-date=May 7, 2021 |archive-date=May 7, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210507105719/https://wasc.stanford.edu/sites/g/files/sbiybj10311/f/foundinggrant.pdf |url-status=dead}} The Stanfords also hired renowned landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, who previously designed the Cornell campus, to design the Stanford campus.{{Cite web |last=University |first=Office of the Registrar-Stanford |title=Stanford Bulletin – Stanford University |url=https://web.stanford.edu/dept/registrar/bulletin0809/4796.htm |access-date=2023-10-24 |website=web.stanford.edu |archive-date=April 1, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240401120555/https://web.stanford.edu/dept/registrar/bulletin0809/4796.htm |url-status=live }}

When Leland Stanford died in 1893, the continued existence of the university was put in jeopardy due to a federal lawsuit against his estate, but Jane Stanford insisted the university remain in operation throughout the financial crisis.{{cite book |author=Edith R. |first=Mirrielees |title=Stanford: The Story of a University |publisher=G. P. Putnam's Sons |year=1959 |pages=82–91 |language=en-US |lccn=59013788}}{{cite journal |last1=Nilan |first1=Roxanne |year=1979 |title=Jane Lathrop Stanford and the Domestication of Stanford University, 1893–1905 |journal=San Jose Studies |language=en-US |volume=5 |issue=1 |pages=7–30}} The university suffered major damage from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake; most of the damage was repaired, but a new library and gymnasium were demolished, and some original features of Memorial Church and the Quad were never restored.{{cite web |title=Post-destruction decisions |url=http://quake06.stanford.edu/centennial/tour/stop2.html |access-date=May 3, 2021 |work=Stanford University and the 1906 Earthquake |language=en-US |archive-date=June 4, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240604212600/http://quake06.stanford.edu/centennial/tour/stop2.html |url-status=live }} During the early-20th century, the university added four professional graduate schools. Stanford University School of Medicine was established in 1908 when the university acquired Cooper Medical College in San Francisco;{{cite web |title=Stanford University School of Medicine and the Predecessor Schools: An Historical Perspective. Part IV: Cooper Medical College 1883–1912. Chapter 30. Consolidation with Stanford University 1906 – 1912 |url=https://lane.stanford.edu/med-history/wilson/chap30.html |access-date=June 5, 2018 |work=Stanford Medical History Center |language=en-US |archive-date=June 11, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180611041857/http://lane.stanford.edu/med-history/wilson/chap30.html |url-status=live }} it moved to the Stanford campus in 1959.{{cite web |title=Stanford University School of Medicine and the Predecessor Schools: An Historical Perspective Part V. The Stanford Era 1909– Chapter 37. The New Stanford Medical Center Planning and Building 1953 – 1959 |url=https://lane.stanford.edu/med-history/wilson/chap37.html |access-date=June 5, 2018 |work=Stanford Medical History Center |language=en-US |archive-date=June 3, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240603113813/https://lane.stanford.edu/med-history/wilson/chap37.html |url-status=live }}

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The university's law department, established as an undergraduate curriculum in 1893, was transitioned into a professional law school starting in 1908 and received accreditation from the American Bar Association in 1923.{{cite web |title=ABA-Approved Law Schools by Year |url=http://www.americanbar.org/groups/legal_education/resources/aba_approved_law_schools/by_year_approved.html |access-date=April 20, 2011 |work=By Year Approved |language=en-US |archive-date=October 20, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211020180951/http://www.americanbar.org/groups/legal_education/resources/aba_approved_law_schools/by_year_approved.html |url-status=live }} The Stanford University Graduate School of Education grew out of the Department of the History and Art of Education, one of the original twenty-one departments at Stanford, and became a professional graduate school in 1917.{{cite web |date=September 17, 2018 |title=History |url=https://ed.stanford.edu/about/history |access-date=May 3, 2021 |work=Stanford Graduate School of Education |language=en-US |archive-date=July 4, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240704110901/https://ed.stanford.edu/about/history |url-status=live }} The Stanford Graduate School of Business was founded in 1925 at the urging of then-trustee Herbert Hoover.{{cite web |title=Our History |url=https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/experience/news-history/history |access-date=May 3, 2021 |work=Stanford Graduate School of Business |language=en-US |archive-date=May 3, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210503200923/https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/experience/news-history/history |url-status=live }} In 1919, The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace was started by Herbert Hoover to preserve artifacts related to World War I. The SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, established in 1962, performs research in particle physics.{{cite encyclopedia |title=Stanford University |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Stanford-University |date=November 27, 2019 |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=August 8, 2016 |archive-date=September 25, 2015 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20150925084448/http://www.britannica.com/topic/Stanford-University |url-status=live }}

In the 1940s and 1950s, Frederick Terman, an engineering professor who later became provost, encouraged Stanford engineering graduates to start their own companies and invent products.{{cite book |author1=Lécuyer |first=Christophe |title=Making Silicon Valley: Innovation and the Growth of High Tech, 1930–1970 |date=August 24, 2007 |publisher=The MIT Press |isbn=978-0262622110 |edition=1st |location=Cambridge, Massachusetts |pages=49–50 |language=en-US}} During the 1950s, he established Stanford Industrial Park, a high-tech commercial campus on university land.{{cite web |last1=Sandelin |first1=Jon |title=Co-Evolution of Stanford University & the Silicon Valley: 1950 to Today |url=http://www.wipo.int/edocs/mdocs/arab/en/wipo_idb_ip_ryd_07/wipo_idb_ip_ryd_07_1.pdf |access-date=January 23, 2018 |website=WIPO |publisher=Stanford University Office of Technology Licensing |language=en-US |archive-date=May 12, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240512023458/https://www.wipo.int/edocs/mdocs/arab/en/wipo_idb_ip_ryd_07/wipo_idb_ip_ryd_07_1.pdf |url-status=live }} Also in the 1950s, William Shockley, co-inventor of the silicon transistor, recipient of the 1956 Nobel Prize for Physics, and later professor of physics at Stanford, moved to the Palo Alto area and founded a company, Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory. The next year, eight of his employees resigned and formed a competing company, Fairchild Semiconductor. The presence of so many high-tech and semiconductor firms helped to establish Stanford and the mid-Peninsula as a hotbed of innovation, eventually named Silicon Valley after the key ingredient in transistors.Gillmor, C. Stewart. Fred Terman at Stanford: Building a Discipline, a University, and Silicon Valley. Stanford, CA: Stanford UP, 2004. Print. Shockley and Terman are both often described as the "fathers of Silicon Valley".{{cite web |last=Tajnai |first=Carolyn |date=May 1985 |title=Fred Terman, the Father of Silicon Valley |url=http://forum.stanford.edu/carolyn/terman |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141211020643/http://forum.stanford.edu/carolyn/terman |archive-date=December 11, 2014 |access-date=December 10, 2014 |website=Stanford Computer Forum |publisher=Carolyn Terman |language=en-US}}{{Cite magazine |last=Rosenberg |first=Scott |date=July 19, 2017 |title=Silicon Valley's First Founder Was Its Worst |language=en-US |magazine=Wired |url=https://www.wired.com/story/silicon-valleys-first-founder-was-its-worst/ |url-status=live |access-date=January 8, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190901020558/https://www.wired.com/story/silicon-valleys-first-founder-was-its-worst/ |archive-date=September 1, 2019 |issn=1059-1028}}

In the 1950s, Stanford intentionally reduced and restricted Jewish admissions, and for decades, denied and dismissed claims from students, parents, and alumni that they were doing so.{{Cite news |last=Salahieh |first=Nouran |date=October 13, 2022 |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2022/10/13/us/stanford-apology-limiting-jewish-admissions-reaj/index.html |title=Stanford University apologizes for limiting Jewish student admissions during the 1950s |publisher=CNN |access-date=October 14, 2022 |archive-date=October 13, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221013125329/https://edition.cnn.com/2022/10/13/us/stanford-apology-limiting-jewish-admissions-reaj/index.html |url-status=live }} Stanford issued its first institutional apology to the Jewish community in 2022 after an internal task force confirmed that the university deliberately discriminated against Jewish applicants, while also misleading those who expressed concerns, including students, parents, alumni, and the ADL.{{Cite news |last=Pietsch |first=Bryan |date=2022-10-13 |title=Stanford apologizes for limiting admissions of Jewish students in 1950s |language=en-US |newspaper=Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/10/13/stanford-jewish-students-admissions-apology/ |access-date=2023-08-11 |issn=0190-8286 |archive-date=June 22, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230622044852/https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/10/13/stanford-jewish-students-admissions-apology/ |url-status=live }}{{Cite news |last=Dremann |first=Sue |date=October 14, 2022 |title=Stanford apologizes for historical bias against Jewish students |url=https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2022/10/14/stanford-apologizes-for-historical-bias-against-jewish-students |work=Palo Alto Weekly |access-date=October 3, 2023 |archive-date=October 5, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231005022625/https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2022/10/14/stanford-apologizes-for-historical-bias-against-jewish-students |url-status=live }} Stanford was once considered a school for "the wealthy",{{cite news |last1=Wallace |first1=J. E. |date=July 3, 1985 |title=History scholar built stanford into top school |language=en-US |publisher=The Globe and Mail |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/1435607944 |access-date=30 January 2023 |id={{ProQuest|1435607944}}}} but controversies in later decades damaged its reputation. The 1971 Stanford prison experiment was criticized as unethical,The Belmont Report, Office of the Secretary, Ethical Principles and Guidelines for the Protection of Human Subjects of Research, The National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects for Biomedical and Behavioral Research, April 18, 1979 and the misuse of government funds from 1981 resulted in severe penalties for the school's research funding,{{cite web |date=October 18, 1994 |title=Stanford, government agree to settle a dispute over research costs |url=http://news.stanford.edu/pr/94/941018Arc4090.html |access-date=August 22, 2014 |website=stanford.edu |publisher=News.stanford.edu |language=en-US |archive-date=April 8, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150408204952/http://news.stanford.edu/pr/94/941018Arc4090.html |url-status=dead}}{{cite news |last=Merl |first=Jean |date=July 30, 1991 |title=Stanford President, Beset by Controversies, Will Quit: Education: Donald Kennedy to step down next year. Research scandal, harassment charge plagued university. |language=en-US |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-07-30-mn-131-story.html |access-date=May 16, 2020 |archive-date=January 19, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190119083447/http://articles.latimes.com/1991-07-30/news/mn-131_1_donald-kennedy |url-status=live }} and the resignation of President Donald Kennedy in 1992.{{cite news |last=Folkenflik |first=David |date=November 20, 1994 |title=What Happened to Stanford's Expense Scandal? |language=en-US |newspaper=Baltimore Sun |url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/1994/11/20/what-happened-to-stanfords-expense-scandal/ |access-date=September 28, 2021 |archive-date=October 20, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131020072302/http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1994-11-20/news/1994324051_1_stanford-incidental-expenses-auditors |url-status=live}}

In the 1960s, Stanford rose from a regional university to one of the most prestigious in the United States, "when it appeared on lists of the "top ten" universities in America... This swift rise to performance [was] understood at the time as related directly to the university's defense contracts..."{{Cite book |last=Lowen |first=Rebecca S. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e0bVC2FEoSwC&dq=stanford+prestige+early+20th+century&pg=PA7 |title=Creating the Cold War University: The Transformation of Stanford |date=July 1, 1997 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=978-0-520-91790-3 |edition=1st |location=US |pages=7 |language=en-US}} Wallace Sterling was the President from 1949 to 1968 and he oversaw the growth of Stanford from a financially troubled regional university to a financially sound, internationally recognized academic powerhouse, "the Harvard of the West".Roxanne L. Nilan, and Cassius L. Kirk Jr., Stanford's Wallace Sterling: Portrait of a Presidency 1949–1968 (Stanford Up, 2023), Achievements during Sterling's tenure included:

• Moving the Stanford Medical School from a small, inadequate campus in San Francisco to a new facility on the Stanford campus which was fully integrated into the university to an unusual degree for medical schools.
• Establishing the Stanford Industrial Park (now the Stanford Research Park) and the Stanford Shopping Center on leased University land, thus stabilizing the university's finances. The Stanford Industrial Park, together with the university's aggressive pursuit of government research grants, helped to spur the development of Silicon Valley.
• Increasing the number of students receiving financial aid from less than 5% when he took office to more than one-third when he retired.
• Increasing the size of the student body from 8,300 to 11,300 and the size of the tenured faculty from 322 to 974.
• Launching the PACE fundraising program, the largest such program ever undertaken by any university up to that time.
• Launching a building boom on campus that included a new bookstore, post office, student union, dormitories, a faculty club, and many academic buildings.
• Creating the Overseas Campus program for undergraduates in 1958.

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Most of Stanford is on an {{convert|8180|acre|sqmi km2|1|adj=on}} campus, one of the largest in the United States.{{#tag:ref|It is often stated that Stanford has the largest contiguous campus in the world (or the United States){{cite web |url=https://web.stanford.edu/dept/visitorinfo/tours/virtual/index.html |title=Virtual Tours |publisher=Stanford University |access-date=April 2, 2014 |archive-date=June 12, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612040335/https://web.stanford.edu/dept/visitorinfo/tours/virtual/index.html |url-status=dead}}{{cite web |last=Keck |first=Gayle |title=Stanford: A Haven in Silicon Valley |url=http://www.gaylekeck.com/wp-content/uploads/Silicon-Valley-Story.pdf |magazine=Executive Travel Magazine |access-date=July 8, 2012 |archive-date=February 25, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210225075804/https://www.gaylekeck.com/wp-content/uploads/Silicon-Valley-Story.pdf |url-status=live }} but that depends on definitions. Berry College with over {{convert|26000|acre|sqmi km2|1}}, Paul Smith's College with {{convert|14200|acre|sqmi km2|1}}, and the United States Air Force Academy with {{convert|18500|acre|ha}} are larger but are not usually classified as universities. Duke University at {{convert|8610|acre|sqmi km2|1}} does have more land, but it is not contiguous. However, the University of the South has over {{convert|13000|acre|sqmi km2|1}}.|name="noteLargest"|group=note}} It is on the San Francisco Peninsula, in the northwest part of the Santa Clara Valley (Silicon Valley) approximately {{convert|37|mi|round=5}} southeast of San Francisco and approximately {{convert|20|mi|round=5}} northwest of San Jose. Stanford received $4.5 billion in 2006 and spent more than $2.1 billion in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties. In 2008, 60% of this land remained undeveloped.{{cite web |last=Report |first=Stanford |date=October 9, 2008 |title=University spent $2.1 billion locally in 2006, study shows |url=http://news.stanford.edu/news/2008/october15/economic-101508.html |access-date=May 11, 2014 |website=stanford.edu |language=en-US |archive-date=May 12, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140512213707/http://news.stanford.edu/news/2008/october15/economic-101508.html |url-status=dead }}

Stanford's main campus includes a census-designated place within unincorporated Santa Clara County,{{cite web |url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/DC20BLK/st06_ca/place/p0673906_stanford/DC20BLK_P0673906.pdf |title=2020 CENSUS – CENSUS BLOCK MAP: Stanford CDP, CA |publisher=U.S. Census Bureau |access-date=2023-07-01 |quote=Stanford Univ |archive-date=July 1, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230701134410/https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/DC20BLK/st06_ca/place/p0673906_stanford/DC20BLK_P0673906.pdf |url-status=live }} although some of the university land (such as the Stanford Shopping Center and the Stanford Research Park) is within the city limits of Palo Alto. The campus also includes much land in unincorporated San Mateo County (including the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and the Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve), as well as in the city limits of Menlo Park (Stanford Hills neighborhood), Woodside, and Portola Valley.{{cite web |date=2013 |title=Stanford Facts: The Stanford Lands |url=http://facts.stanford.edu/about/lands |access-date=December 20, 2013 |website=stanford.edu |publisher=Stanford University |language=en-US |archive-date=February 24, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210224081425/https://facts.stanford.edu/about/lands/ |url-status=dead }}

The central campus includes a seasonal lake (Lake Lagunita, an irrigation reservoir), home to the vulnerable California tiger salamander. As of 2012, Lake Lagunita was often dry and the university had no plans to artificially fill it.{{cite web |author=Enthoven |first=Julia |date=December 5, 2012 |title=University monitors Lake Lagunita after fall storms |url=http://www.stanforddaily.com/2012/12/05/lake-lag-feels-brunt-of-adverse-weather/ |access-date=December 20, 2013 |website=stanforddaily.com |publisher=The Stanford Daily |language=en-US |archive-date=February 10, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210210145915/https://www.stanforddaily.com/2012/12/05/lake-lag-feels-brunt-of-adverse-weather/ |url-status=live }} Heavy rains in January 2023 refilled Lake Lagunita to up to 8 feet of depth.{{Cite web |date=2023-01-09 |title=Stanford students rejoice over full Lake Lag |url=https://stanforddaily.com/2023/01/09/so-much-more-alive-stanford-students-rejoice-over-full-lake-lag/ |access-date=2023-05-29 |language=en-US |archive-date=May 29, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230529214027/https://stanforddaily.com/2023/01/09/so-much-more-alive-stanford-students-rejoice-over-full-lake-lag/ |url-status=live }} Two other reservoirs, Searsville Lake on San Francisquito Creek and Felt Lake,{{cite news |last1=Krieger |first1=Lisa M |date=December 28, 2008 |title=Felt Lake: Muddy portal to Stanford's past |url=https://www.mercurynews.com/2008/12/28/felt-lake-muddy-portal-to-stanfords-past/ |access-date=July 10, 2022 |work=The Mercury News |language=en-US |archive-date=July 10, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220710145022/https://www.mercurynews.com/2008/12/28/felt-lake-muddy-portal-to-stanfords-past/ |url-status=live }} are on more remote sections of the founding grant.

{{wide image|Stanford Oval May 2011 panorama.jpg|800px|align-cap=center|View of the main quadrangle of Stanford with Memorial Church in the center background from across the grass-covered Oval.}}

The central campus is adjacent to Palo Alto,{{cite web |url=https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/files/assets/public/planning-amp-development-services/file-migration/current-planning/forms-and-guidelines/comprehensive-plan-land-use-designation-map.pdf |title=Palo Alto General Plan Update: Land Use Element |publisher=City of Palo Alto |access-date=2023-07-01 |archive-date=July 1, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230701163337/https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/files/assets/public/planning-amp-development-services/file-migration/current-planning/forms-and-guidelines/comprehensive-plan-land-use-designation-map.pdf |url-status=live }} bounded by El Camino Real, Stanford Avenue, Junipero Serra Blvd, and Sand Hill Road, off State Route 82. The United States Postal Service has assigned it two ZIP Codes: 94305 for campus mail and 94309 for P.O. box mail. It lies within area code 650.{{wide image|Stanford University Aerial View.jpg|880px|align-cap=center|An aerial view of Stanford University, featuring the campus buildings with distinctive red-tile roofs. At the center of the image is the iconic Hoover Tower.}}

On the founding grant:

• Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve is a {{convert|1200|acre|ha|adj=on}} natural reserve west of the central campus owned by the university and used by wildlife biologists for research. Researchers and students are involved in biological research. Professors can teach the importance of biological research to the biological community. The primary goal is to understand the system of the natural Earth.{{Cite web |title=About the Preserve |url=https://jrbp.stanford.edu/about |access-date=May 1, 2022 |website=jrbp.stanford |language=en-US |archive-date=April 29, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220429001445/http://jrbp.stanford.edu/about |url-status=live }}
• SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory is a facility west of the central campus operated by the university for the Department of Energy. It contains the longest linear particle accelerator in the world, {{convert|2|mi|km}} on a {{convert|426|acre|ha|adj=on}} area of land.{{cite web |title=About SLAC |url=http://www6.slac.stanford.edu/AboutSLAC.aspx |access-date=April 4, 2021 |website=slac.stanford.edu |language=en-US |archive-date=July 30, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120730012428/http://www6.slac.stanford.edu/AboutSLAC.aspx |url-status=live }}

Off the founding grant:

• Hopkins Marine Station, in Pacific Grove, California, is a marine biology research center owned by the university since 1892. Based on US Pacific Coast, it is one of the oldest marine laboratories. It includes 10 research laboratories and is also used for archaeological exploration purposes.{{Cite web |last=Howe |first=Kevin |date=May 10, 2011 |title=Pacific Grove |url=https://www.montereyherald.com/2011/05/10/pacific-grove-to-mark-105th-anniversary-of-chinese-village-fire/ |access-date=July 19, 2021 |website=montereyherald.com |language=en-US}} A graduate student of the anthropology department discovered evidence that the location was home to a Chinese American fishing village in the early 1900s.{{Cite news |last=Julian |first=Sam |date=August 17, 2010 |title=Graduate student uncovers Hopkins' immigrant history |language=en-US |work=news.stanford |url=https://news.stanford.edu/news/2010/august/hopkins-081710.html |access-date=May 3, 2022 |archive-date=May 19, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220519101015/https://news.stanford.edu/news/2010/august/hopkins-081710.html |url-status=dead }}
• Study abroad locations: unlike typical study abroad programs, Stanford itself operates in several locations around the world; thus, each location has Stanford faculty-in-residence and staff in addition to students, creating a "mini-Stanford."{{cite web |title=Faculty-in-Residence : Bing Overseas Study Program |url=https://undergrad.stanford.edu/programs/bosp/teach/faculty-residence |access-date=December 20, 2013 |website=bosp.stanford.edu |language=en-US |archive-date=February 23, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210223025249/https://undergrad.stanford.edu/programs/bosp/teach/faculty-residence |url-status=live }}
• Redwood City campus for many of the university's administrative offices in Redwood City, California, a few miles north of the main campus. In 2005, the university purchased a small, {{convert|35|acre|ha|adj=on}} campus in Midpoint Technology Park intended for staff offices; development was delayed by the Great Recession.{{cite news |last=Falk |first=Joshua |date=July 29, 2010 |title=Redwood City campus remains undeveloped |language=en-US |publisher=The Stanford Daily |url=http://www.stanforddaily.com/2010/07/29/redwood-city-campus-remains-undeveloped/ |access-date=April 4, 2011 |archive-date=February 10, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210210145924/https://www.stanforddaily.com/2010/07/29/redwood-city-campus-remains-undeveloped/ |url-status=live }}{{cite news |last1=Chesley |first1=Kate |title=Redwood City approves Stanford office building proposals |url=http://news.stanford.edu/news/2013/september/redwood-city-development-091013.html |access-date=July 27, 2014 |work=Stanford Report |publisher=Stanford University |date=September 10, 2013 |archive-date=March 31, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140331015240/http://news.stanford.edu/news/2013/september/redwood-city-development-091013.html |url-status=dead }} In 2015, the university announced a development plan,{{cite news |last1=Kadvany |first1=Elena |date=December 10, 2015 |title=Stanford's Redwood City campus moves closer to reality |language=en-US |agency=Palo Alto Weekly |url=http://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2015/12/10/stanfords-redwood-city-campus-moves-closer-to-reality |access-date=December 19, 2015 |archive-date=December 22, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222163605/http://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2015/12/10/stanfords-redwood-city-campus-moves-closer-to-reality |url-status=live }} and the Redwood City campus opened in March 2019.{{cite news |last1=University |first1=Stanford |title=Stanford Redwood City campus evokes warmth of university |url=https://news.stanford.edu/2020/01/31/visited-stanford-redwood-city/ |access-date=September 19, 2020 |work=Stanford News |date=January 31, 2020 |language=en |archive-date=June 2, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200602071559/https://news.stanford.edu/2020/01/31/visited-stanford-redwood-city/ |url-status=live }}
• The Bass Center in Washington, D.C. provides a base, including housing, for the Stanford in Washington program for undergraduates.{{cite web |title=Bass Center Overview {{!}} Stanford in Washington |url=https://siw.stanford.edu/bass-center/overview |website=siw.stanford.edu |access-date=September 19, 2020 |archive-date=September 5, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200905220812/https://siw.stanford.edu/bass-center/overview |url-status=live }} It includes a small art gallery open to the public.{{cite web |title=The Art Gallery at Stanford in Washington {{!}} Stanford in Washington |url=https://siw.stanford.edu/art-gallery/about-gallery |access-date=September 19, 2020 |website=siw.stanford.edu |language=en-US}}
• China: Stanford Center at Peking University, housed in the Lee Jung Sen Building, is a small center for researchers and students in collaboration with Peking University.{{cite web |title=About the Center |url=http://scpku.stanford.edu/about/ |website=Stanford Center at Peking |publisher=Stanford University |access-date=July 27, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130707043657/http://scpku.stanford.edu/about/ |archive-date=July 7, 2013}}{{cite web |title=The Lee Jung Sen Building |url=http://scpku.stanford.edu/building/ |website=Stanford Center at Peking University |publisher=Stanford University |access-date=July 27, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130702083007/http://scpku.stanford.edu/building/ |archive-date=July 2, 2013}}

{{wide image|Lake Lagunita Stanford January 2013 panorama 5.jpg|880px|align-cap=center|Lake Lagunita in winter; the Dish, a large radio telescope and a local landmark, is visible in the Stanford-owned foothills behind the lake and is the high point of a popular campus jogging and walking trail.}}

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Many Stanford faculty members live in the "Faculty Ghetto", within walking or biking distance of campus.{{cite web |title=Stanford Faculty Staff Housing |url=http://fsh.stanford.edu/index.shtml |access-date=December 20, 2013 |archive-date=October 29, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201029042031/https://fsh.stanford.edu/index.shtml |url-status=dead}} The Faculty Ghetto is composed of land owned by Stanford. Similar to a condominium, the houses can be bought and sold to other Stanford faculty but the land under the houses is leased for 51 years with the possibility of extensions. Houses in the "Ghetto" appreciate and depreciate, but not as rapidly as overall Silicon Valley values.{{Cite web |title=Housing Program Changes 2022 |url=https://fsh.stanford.edu/node/15586 |access-date=March 10, 2022 |website=Stanford Login |language=en-US |archive-date=January 29, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220129152536/https://fsh.stanford.edu/node/15586 |url-status=live }}

Some of the land is managed to provide revenue for the university such as the Stanford Shopping Center and the Stanford Research Park. Stanford land is also leased for a token rent by the Palo Alto Unified School District for several schools including Palo Alto High School and Gunn High School.{{cite news |last1=Breitrose |first1=Charlie |title=SCHOOLS: District wants Stanford land for school |url=http://www.paloaltoonline.com/weekly/morgue/news/1998_Dec_2.LAND.html |access-date=January 24, 2016 |newspaper=Palo Alto Weekly |date=December 2, 1998 |archive-date=October 30, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151030012814/http://www.paloaltoonline.com/weekly/morgue/news/1998_Dec_2.LAND.html |url-status=dead }} El Camino Park, the oldest Palo Alto city park, is also on Stanford land.{{cite web |title=El Camino Park |url=http://www.cityofpaloalto.org/news/displaynews.asp?NewsID=105&TargetID=14 |publisher=City of Palo Alto |access-date=January 24, 2016 |archive-date=February 1, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160201061506/http://www.cityofpaloalto.org/news/displaynews.asp?NewsID=105&TargetID=14 |url-status=dead}} Stanford also has the Stanford Golf Course,{{cite web |title=Stanford Golf Course – Stanford, CA |url=https://www.stanfordgolfcourse.com/ |website=www.stanfordgolfcourse.com |access-date=July 10, 2022 |archive-date=July 12, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220712012306/https://www.stanfordgolfcourse.com/ |url-status=live }} and Stanford Red Barn Equestrian Center,{{cite web |title=Stanford Red Barn Equestrian Center {{!}} Recreation and Wellness |url=https://rec.stanford.edu/visit/stanford-red-barn-equestrian-center |access-date=July 10, 2022 |website=Stanford Red Barn Equestrian Center |language=en-US |archive-date=July 10, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220710145024/https://rec.stanford.edu/visit/stanford-red-barn-equestrian-center |url-status=live }} used by Stanford athletics though the golf course can also be used by the general public.

Contemporary campus landmarks include the Main Quad and Memorial Church, the Cantor Center for Visual Arts and the Bing Concert Hall, the Stanford Mausoleum with the nearby Angel of Grief, Hoover Tower, the Rodin Sculpture Garden, the Papua New Guinea Sculpture Garden, the Arizona Cactus Garden, the Stanford University Arboretum, Green Library and the Dish. Frank Lloyd Wright's 1937 Hanna–Honeycomb House and the 1919 Lou Henry Hoover House are both listed on the National Register of Historic Places. White Memorial Fountain (also known as "The Claw") between the Stanford Bookstore and the Old Union is a popular place to meet and to engage in the Stanford custom of "fountain hopping"; it was installed in 1964 and designed by Aristides Demetrios after a national competition as a memorial for two brothers in the class of 1949, William White and John White II, one of whom died before graduating and one shortly after in 1952.{{cite news |last1=Sullivan |first1=Kathleen J. |title=Machinists restoring White Memorial Fountain, aka The Claw, develop an affinity for the campus icon |url=http://news.stanford.edu/news/2010/august/restoring-the-claw-080510.html |access-date=December 11, 2016 |agency=Stanford News |date=August 5, 2010 |archive-date=December 20, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220142616/http://news.stanford.edu/news/2010/august/restoring-the-claw-080510.html |url-status=dead }}{{cite news |last1=Sullivan |first1=Kathleen J. |title=Sculptor returns for update on White Plaza fountain makeover |url=http://news.stanford.edu/news/2011/june/claw-makeover-update-061011.html |access-date=December 11, 2016 |agency=Stanford News |date=June 10, 2011 |archive-date=September 13, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240913232934/https://news.stanford.edu/ |url-status=live }}{{cite news |last1=Kofman |first1=Nicole |date=May 22, 2012 |title=Frolicking in fountains |language=en-US |work=Stanford Daily |url=http://www.stanforddaily.com/2012/05/22/frolicking-in-fountains/ |access-date=December 11, 2016 |archive-date=September 13, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240913232935/https://stanforddaily.com/2012/05/22/frolicking-in-fountains/ |url-status=live }}{{cite news |last1=Steffen |first1=Nancy L. |title=The Claw: White Plaza Dedication |url=http://stanforddailyarchive.com/cgi-bin/stanford?a=d&d=stanford19640520-01.2.12 |access-date=December 11, 2016 |work=Stanford Daily |date=May 20, 1964 |archive-date=December 20, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220092032/http://stanforddailyarchive.com/cgi-bin/stanford?a=d&d=stanford19640520-01.2.12 |url-status=live }} Has information on the White brothers that slightly corrects some of the facts in other articles.

File:Stanford Memorial Church Interior 2.jpg|Interior of the Stanford Memorial Church at the center of the Main Quad

File:Stanford University Hoover Tower.JPG|Hoover Tower, at {{convert|285|ft|m}}, the tallest building on campus

File:Stanstadium view.jpg|The new Stanford Stadium, site of home football games

File:Stanford University Arches with Memorial Church in the background.jpg|Stanford Quad with Memorial Church in the background

File:The Dish, Stanford University.jpg|The Dish, a {{convert|150|ft|m}} diameter radio telescope on the Stanford foothills overlooking the main campus

File:Claw Fountain at Stanford Univerisity.JPG|White Memorial Fountain (The Claw)

Stanford is a private, non-profit university administered as a corporate trust governed by a privately appointed board of trustees with a maximum membership of 38.{{cite web |date=May 2, 2018 |title=Stanford Facts: Administration & Finances |url=http://facts.stanford.edu/administration |access-date=June 13, 2018 |website=facts.stanford.edu |publisher=Stanford University |language=en-US |archive-date=September 13, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240913232940/https://facts.stanford.edu/administration/ |url-status=live }}{{refn|group=note|The rules governing the board have changed over time. The original 24 trustees were appointed for life in 1885 by the Stanfords, as were some of the subsequent replacements. In 1899 Jane Stanford changed the maximum number of trustees from 24 to 15 and set the term of office to 10 years. On June 1, 1903, she resigned her powers as founder and the board took on its full powers. In the 1950s, the board decided that its fifteen members were not sufficient to do all the work needed and in March 1954 petitioned the courts to raise the maximum number to 23, of whom 20 would be regular trustees serving 10-year terms and 3 would be alumni trustees serving 5-year terms. In 1970 another petition was successfully made to have the number raised to a maximum of 35 (with a minimum of 25), that all trustees would be regular trustees, and that the university president would be a trustee ex officio. The last original trustee, Timothy Hopkins, died in 1936; the last life trustee, Joseph D. Grant (appointed in 1891), died in 1942.{{cite web |title=Joseph D. Grant House – Parks and Recreation – County of Santa Clara |url=https://www.sccgov.org/sites/parks/Activities/Cultural-Venues/Pages/JDGrantHouse.aspx |website=www.sccgov.org |access-date=October 30, 2019 |archive-date=October 30, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191030033909/https://www.sccgov.org/sites/parks/Activities/Cultural-Venues/Pages/JDGrantHouse.aspx |url-status=dead}} Joseph D. Grant County Park (Santa Clara) is named for him.|name=noteTrustees}} Trustees serve five-year terms (not more than two consecutive terms) and meet five times annually.{{cite web |title=University Governance and Organization |url=http://exploredegrees.stanford.edu/universitygovernanceandorganization/#boardoftrusteestext |access-date=December 20, 2013 |website=bulletin.stanford.edu |publisher=Stanford University |language=en-US |archive-date=December 20, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131220163004/http://exploredegrees.stanford.edu/universitygovernanceandorganization/#boardoftrusteestext |url-status=live }} A new trustee is chosen by the current trustees by ballot.{{cite web |url=https://wasc.stanford.edu/system/files/FoundingGrant_1.pdf |title=Stanford University – The Founding Grant with Amendments, Legislation, and Court Decrees |publisher=Stanford University |year=1987 |access-date=December 30, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130120104455/https://wasc.stanford.edu/system/files/FoundingGrant_1.pdf |archive-date=January 20, 2013}} The Stanford trustees also oversee the Stanford Research Park, the Stanford Shopping Center, the Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University Medical Center, and many associated medical facilities (including the Lucile Packard Children's Hospital).{{cite web |url=http://www.stanford.edu/about/facts/finances.html |title=Stanford University Facts—Finances and Governance |publisher=Stanford University |access-date=November 27, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081115042016/http://www.stanford.edu/about/facts/finances.html |archive-date=November 15, 2008}}

The board appoints a president to serve as the chief executive officer of the university, to prescribe the duties of professors and course of study, to manage financial and business affairs, and to appoint nine vice presidents.{{cite web |title=University Governance and Organization |url=http://exploredegrees.stanford.edu/universitygovernanceandorganization/#presidenttext |access-date=December 20, 2013 |website=bulletin.stanford.edu |publisher=Stanford University |language=en-US |archive-date=September 13, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240913232942/https://bulletin.stanford.edu/404#presidenttext |url-status=live }} Richard Saller became the interim president in September 2023.{{Cite web |date=2023-09-01 |title=Biography |url=https://president.stanford.edu/biography/ |access-date=2023-10-03 |language=en-US |archive-date=October 5, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231005022625/https://president.stanford.edu/biography/ |url-status=live }} On April 4, 2024, the board of trustees announced that Jonathan Levin would become the thirteenth president on August 1, 2024.{{cite news|url=https://news.stanford.edu/report/2024/04/04/stanford-alum-business-school-dean-jonathan-levin-named-stanford-president/|title=Stanford alum, business school dean Jonathan Levin named Stanford president|publisher=Stanford University|date=April 4, 2024|access-date=April 6, 2024|archive-date=April 6, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240406074413/https://news.stanford.edu/report/2024/04/04/stanford-alum-business-school-dean-jonathan-levin-named-stanford-president/|url-status=live}} The provost is the chief academic and budget officer, to whom the deans of each of the seven schools report.{{cite web |title=About the Provost |url=https://provost.stanford.edu/about-the-provost/ |website=Office of the Provost |publisher=Stanford University |access-date=February 7, 2017 |language=en |archive-date=February 6, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170206235151/http://provost.stanford.edu/about-the-provost/ |url-status=live }}{{cite web |title=About the Office {{!}} Office of the Provost |url=https://provost.stanford.edu/about-the-office/ |access-date=June 23, 2018 |website=Provost Stanford |publisher=Stanford University |language=en-US |archive-date=September 13, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240913232942/https://provost.stanford.edu/about-the-office/ |url-status=live }} Jenny Martinez became the fourteenth provost in October 2023.{{Cite web |date=2023-08-23 |title=Jenny S. Martinez appointed Stanford provost |url=https://news.stanford.edu/report/2023/08/23/jenny-s-martinez-appointed-stanford-provost/ |access-date=2023-10-03 |language=en-US |archive-date=September 13, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240913233025/https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2023/08/jenny-s-martinez-appointed-stanford-provost |url-status=live }} The university is organized into seven academic schools.{{cite web |title=Stanford's Seven Schools |url=https://www.stanford.edu/academics/schools/ |access-date=May 29, 2018 |website=Stanford University |language=en-US}}

The schools of Humanities and Sciences (twenty-seven departments),{{cite web |title=School of Humanities and Sciences {{!}} Stanford University |url=http://exploredegrees.stanford.edu/schoolofhumanitiesandsciences/ |access-date=May 29, 2018 |website=exploredegrees.stanford.edu |language=en |archive-date=June 6, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180606054923/http://exploredegrees.stanford.edu/schoolofhumanitiesandsciences/ |url-status=live }} Engineering (nine departments),{{cite web |title=School of Engineering {{!}} Stanford University |url=http://exploredegrees.stanford.edu/schoolofengineering/ |access-date=May 29, 2018 |publisher=exploredegrees.stanford.edu |language=en-US |archive-date=September 13, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240913232944/https://bulletin.stanford.edu/pages/w34NFUmejruFXc9pkZZd |url-status=live }} and Sustainability (nine departments){{cite web |url=https://bulletin.stanford.edu/pages/8mcCNkWH0chPAJwAHNnU |title=Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability |work=Stanford Bulletin |access-date=13 June 2023}} have both graduate and undergraduate programs while the Schools of Law,{{Cite web |title=School of Law |url=https://law.stanford.edu/ |access-date=March 25, 2022 |language=en-US |archive-date=July 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240729125135/https://law.stanford.edu/ |url-status=live }} Medicine,{{Cite web |title=School of Medicine |url=https://med.stanford.edu/ |access-date=March 21, 2022}} Education,{{Cite web |title=School of Education |url=https://ed.stanford.edu/ |access-date=March 15, 2022 |website=Stanford Graduate School of Education |language=en-US |archive-date=March 18, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220318092521/https://ed.stanford.edu/ |url-status=live }} and Business{{Cite web |title=School of Business |url=http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/ |access-date=March 29, 2022 |website=Stanford Graduate School of Business |language=en-US |archive-date=September 15, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170915213559/http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/ |url-status=live }} have graduate programs only. The powers and authority of the faculty are vested in the Academic Council, which is made up of tenure and non-tenure line faculty, research faculty, senior fellows in some policy centers and institutes, the president of the university, and some other academic administrators.{{cite web |title=Stanford Faculty Handbook Chapter 2: Appointments, Reappointments and Promotions in the Professoriate |url=https://facultyhandbook.stanford.edu/index/chapter-2-appointments-reappointments-and-promotions-professoriate | publisher=Stanford University | access-date=October 19, 2024}} But most matters are handled by the Faculty Senate, made up of 54 elected representatives of the faculty for 2021.{{cite web |title=The Faculty Senate – University Governance and Organization |url=https://facultysenate.stanford.edu/ |access-date=February 10, 2022 |website=facultysenate.stanford.edu |publisher=Stanford University |language=en-US |archive-date=February 7, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220207183710/https://facultysenate.stanford.edu/ |url-status=live }}

The Associated Students of Stanford University (ASSU) is the student government for Stanford and all registered students are members. Its elected leadership consists of the Undergraduate Senate elected by the undergraduate students, the Graduate Student Council elected by the graduate students, and the President and Vice President elected as a ticket by the entire student body.{{cite web |title=University Governance and Organization |url=http://exploredegrees.stanford.edu/universitygovernanceandorganization/#assutext |access-date=December 20, 2013 |website=bulletin.stanford.edu |publisher=Stanford University |language=en-US |archive-date=December 20, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131220163004/http://exploredegrees.stanford.edu/universitygovernanceandorganization/#assutext |url-status=live }} Stanford is the beneficiary of a special clause in the California Constitution, which explicitly exempts Stanford property from taxation so long as the property is used for educational purposes.{{Cite book |first1=Joseph R. |last1=Grodin |first2=Calvin R. |last2=Massey |first3=Richard B. |last3=Cunningham |title=The California State Constitution: A Reference Guide |location=Westport, Connecticut |page=311 |publisher=Greenwood Press |year=1993 |isbn=0-313-27228-X |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NKa8xj8wgYUC&pg=PA311}}

{{Main article|Stanford University endowment}}

Stanford's endowment includes real estate and other investments valued at $36.5 billion as of August 2023,{{Cite web |last= |first= |last2= |first2= |date=2023-08-31 |title=FAQ |url=https://smc.stanford.edu/faq/ |access-date=2024-07-04 |website=Investment Office of Stanford Management Company |language=en-US |archive-date=July 6, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240706072421/https://smc.stanford.edu/faq/ |url-status=live }} and is one of the four largest academic endowments in the United States.{{Cite web |last=Wood |first=Sarah |date=2023-10-02 |title=15 National Universities With the Biggest Endowments |url=https://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/the-short-list-college/articles/10-universities-with-the-biggest-endowments |access-date=July 3, 2024 |archive-date=July 20, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210720170959/https://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/the-short-list-college/articles/10-universities-with-the-biggest-endowments |url-status=live }} The endowment consists of $29.9 billion in a merged pool of assets and $6.6 billion of real estate near the main campus. Stanford is the largest landowner in the Silicon Valley{{Cite web |last1=Stock |first1=Stephen |last2=Villarreal |first2=Mark |last3=Myers |first3=Sean |last4=Nious • |first4=Kevin |date=2019-11-01 |title=Who Owns Silicon Valley: Stanford? |url=https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/who-owns-silicon-valley-stanford/2061716/ |access-date=2024-07-04 |website=NBC Bay Area |language=en-US |archive-date=September 13, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240913233505/https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/who-owns-silicon-valley-stanford/2061716/ |url-status=live }} Payouts from the endowment covered approximately 22% of university expenses in the 2023 fiscal year.As of August 31, 2023. {{cite web |url=https://news.stanford.edu/2023/10/12/stanford-university-reports-return-investment-portfolio-value-endowment-2/ |title=Stanford University reports return on investment portfolio, value of endowment |date=October 12, 2023 |access-date=October 12, 2023 |archive-date=September 13, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240913233507/https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2023/10/stanford-university-reports-return-investment-portfolio-value-endowment-2 |url-status=live }}

Since inception, the university has been the beneficiary of large donations. The endowment began in 1885, six years before the opening of the university, when Leland Stanford and his wife Jane conveyed approximately $20 million to the university.{{Cite web |title=About Stanford University {{!}} Bondholder Information |url=https://bondholder-information.stanford.edu/about/about-stanford-university |access-date=2024-07-03 |website=bondholder-information.stanford.edu |language=en |archive-date=September 13, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240913233606/https://bondholder-information.stanford.edu/about/about-stanford-university |url-status=live }} The university's pioneering of technology intellectual property transfer created both direct investments and enabled a unique pipeline of mega-donors{{Cite journal |last1=Liang |first1=Weixin |last2=Elrod |first2=Scott |last3=McFarland |first3=Daniel A. |last4=Zou |first4=James |date=2022-09-09 |title=Systematic analysis of 50 years of Stanford University technology transfer and commercialization |journal=Patterns |volume=3 |issue=9 |pages=100584 |doi=10.1016/j.patter.2022.100584 |pmid=36124300 |issn=2666-3899|pmc=9481953 }} including from alumni-founded companies with Google (Sergey Brin and Larry Page), Nike (Phil Knight),{{Cite news |last=Berman |first=Jillian |date=2016-02-24 |title=Nike's Phil Knight explains why he gave Stanford $400 million |url=https://www.marketwatch.com/story/nike-ceo-phil-knight-explains-why-he-gave-stanford-400-million-2016-02-24 |access-date=2024-07-04 |work=MarketWatch |archive-date=February 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230202215055/https://www.marketwatch.com/story/nike-ceo-phil-knight-explains-why-he-gave-stanford-400-million-2016-02-24 |url-status=live }} Hewlett-Packard (David Packard and Bill Hewlett),{{Cite web |last=magazine |first=STANFORD |date=2001-03-01 |title=Father Figure |url=https://stanfordmag.org/contents/father-figure |access-date=2024-07-04 |website=stanfordmag.org |language=en |archive-date=July 30, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240730044825/https://stanfordmag.org/contents/father-figure |url-status=live }} and Sun Microsystems (Vinod Kohsla){{Cite web |title=Stanford Donors Accelerate COVID-19 Research and Drug Trials |url=https://medicalgiving.stanford.edu/why-giving-matters/Stanford-donors-accelerate-COVID-19-research-and-drug-trials.html |access-date=2024-07-04 |website=Medical Center Development |language=en-US |archive-date=September 13, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240913233507/https://medicalgiving.stanford.edu/why-giving-matters/Stanford-donors-accelerate-COVID-19-research-and-drug-trials.html |url-status=live }} as examples. Further, the university's global reputation{{Cite web |title=Top 10 Technology Research Universities in the World: Cpst.org |url=http://www.cpst.org/10-technology-research-universities.html |access-date=2024-07-04 |website=www.cpst.org |archive-date=September 13, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240913233531/http://www.cpst.org/10-technology-research-universities.html |url-status=live }} and continued leadership in technology{{Cite web |last=Ewalt |first=David |date=2019-10-23 |title=Most Innovative Universities in the world 2019 |url=https://www.reuters.com/graphics/AMERS-REUTERS%20RANKING-INNOVATIVE-UNIVERSITIES/0100B2JP1W1/index.html |access-date=2024-07-04 |website=Reuters |archive-date=May 16, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230516183044/https://www.reuters.com/graphics/AMERS-REUTERS%20RANKING-INNOVATIVE-UNIVERSITIES/0100B2JP1W1/index.html |url-status=live }} has attracted large donations from prominent figures such as the co-founder of Netscape (Jim Clark),{{cite web |title=Jim Clark's $150 Million Gift to Stanford University |url=https://news.stanford.edu/2001/07/30/clarkgift |work=Stanford News Service }}{{Dead link|date=July 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} founder of SAP SE (Hasso Plattner),{{Cite news |date=2005-10-03 |title=SAP founder gives $35 million for Stanford D-School |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2005-10-02/sap-founder-gives-35-million-for-stanford-d-school |access-date=2024-07-04 |work=Bloomberg.com |language=en }} co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz (Marc Andreessen and Laura Arillaga-Andreessen),{{Cite news |last=Clark |first=Don |date=2013-06-28 |title=Silicon Valley Donor Gives Big Again to Stanford |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-DGB-27480 |access-date=2024-07-04 |work=The Wall Street Journal |archive-date=December 5, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221205154008/https://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-DGB-27480 |url-status=live }} chairman of Kleiner Perkins (John Doerr and his wife Ann).{{Cite news |last=Gelles |first=David |date=2022-05-04 |title=Stanford Gets $1.1 Billion for New Climate School From John Doerr |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/04/climate/john-doerr-stanford-climate.html |access-date=2024-07-04 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=June 26, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240626094926/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/04/climate/john-doerr-stanford-climate.html |url-status=live }}

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Stanford is considered by US News to be 'most selective' with an acceptance rate of 4%, one of the lowest

among US universities. Half of the applicants accepted to Stanford have an SAT score between 1440 and 1570 or an ACT score between 32 and 35, typically with a GPA of 3.94 or higher. Admissions officials consider a student's grade point average to be an important academic factor, with emphasis on an applicant's high school class rank and letters of recommendation.{{Cite web |last= |first= |date= |title=Stanford University |url=https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/stanford-university-1305/applying |access-date=February 3, 2021 |website=US News |archive-date=September 13, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240913234021/https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/stanford-university-1305/applying |url-status=live }} In terms of non-academic materials as of 2019, Stanford ranks extracurricular activities, talent/ability and character/personal qualities as 'very important' in making first-time, first-year admission decisions, while ranking the interview, whether the applicant is a first-generation university applicant, legacy preferences, volunteer work and work experience as 'considered'.{{Cite web |date=2024-03-31 |title=Frosh of '28 admitted to the Farm |url=https://stanforddaily.com/2024/03/31/frosh-of-28-admitted-to-the-farm/ |access-date=2024-06-03 |language=en-US |archive-date=September 13, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240913234012/https://stanforddaily.com/2024/03/31/frosh-of-28-admitted-to-the-farm/ |url-status=live }} Of those students accepted to Stanford's Class of 2026, 1,736 chose to attend, of which 21% were first-generation college students.

Stanford's admission process is need-blind for U.S. citizens and permanent residents;{{cite web |title=Undergraduate Basics |url=https://financialaid.stanford.edu/undergrad/ |website=Financial Aid |publisher=Stanford University |access-date=4 May 2023 |archive-date=May 4, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230504072114/https://financialaid.stanford.edu/undergrad/ |url-status=live }} while it is not need-blind for international students, 64% are on need-based aid, with an average aid package of $31,411.{{cite web |title=Stanford Common Data Set 2019–2020 |url=https://ucomm.stanford.edu/cds/ |publisher=Stanford University |access-date=May 10, 2020 |archive-date=April 30, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200430215002/https://ucomm.stanford.edu/cds/ |url-status=live }} In 2012, the university awarded $126 million in need-based financial aid to 3,485 students, with an average aid package of $40,460. Eighty percent of students receive some form of financial aid. Stanford has a no-loan policy. For undergraduates admitted starting in 2015, Stanford waives tuition, room, and board for most families with incomes below $65,000, and most families with incomes below $125,000 are not required to pay tuition; those with incomes up to $150,000 may have tuition significantly reduced.{{cite news |url=http://news.stanford.edu/news/2015/march/new-admits-finaid-032715.html |title=Stanford offers admission to 2,144 students, expands financial aid program |date=March 27, 2015 |agency=Stanford News |access-date=May 2, 2015 |archive-date=May 1, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150501201610/http://news.stanford.edu/news/2015/march/new-admits-finaid-032715.html |url-status=dead }} Seventeen percent of students receive Pell Grants, a common measure of low-income students at a college. In 2022, Stanford started its first dual-enrollment computer science program for high school students from low-income communities,{{cite news |url=https://news.stanford.edu/report/2022/01/26/high-school-students-welcomed-stanford-family/ |title=High school students welcomed to the Stanford family |date=January 26, 2022 |agency=Stanford Report |access-date=September 18, 2022 |archive-date=September 16, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220916163659/https://news.stanford.edu/report/2022/01/26/high-school-students-welcomed-stanford-family/ |url-status=live }} as a pilot project which then inspired the founding of the Qualia Global Scholars Program.{{cite web |author=Sha |first=Brian |date=April 10, 2022 |title=What I learned teaching a Stanford computer science class to high school students |url=https://stanforddaily.com/2022/04/10/what-i-learned-teaching-a-stanford-computer-science-class-to-high-school-students/ |access-date=September 18, 2022 |website=stanforddaily.com |publisher=The Stanford Daily |language=en-US |archive-date=September 20, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220920172236/https://stanforddaily.com/2022/04/10/what-i-learned-teaching-a-stanford-computer-science-class-to-high-school-students/ |url-status=live }} Stanford plans to expand the program to include courses in Structured Liberal Education and writing.

Stanford follows a quarter system with the autumn quarter usually beginning in late September and the spring quarter ending in mid-June.{{cite web |title=Carnegie Classifications—Stanford University |url=http://carnegieclassifications.iu.edu/lookup/view_institution.php?unit_id=243744 |access-date=January 22, 2014 |publisher=Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching |language=en-US |archive-date=June 3, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240603125240/http://carnegieclassifications.iu.edu/lookup/view_institution.php?unit_id=243744 |url-status=live }} The full-time, four-year undergraduate program has arts and sciences focus with high graduate student coexistence. Stanford is accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges with the latest review in 2023.{{cite web |title=Accreditation |url=https://wasc.stanford.edu/ |website=wasc.stanford.edu |access-date=23 July 2023 |language=en |archive-date=February 10, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210210223841/https://wasc.stanford.edu/ |url-status=live }}

{{Main|Stanford University centers and institutes}}

Stanford is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity." The university's research expenditure in fiscal years of 2021/22 was $1.82 billion and the total number of sponsored projects was 7,900.{{cite web |title=Stanford Facts |url=https://facts.stanford.edu/ |website=stanford.edu |publisher=Stanford University |access-date=January 22, 2022 |archive-date=January 20, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220120020326/https://facts.stanford.edu/ |url-status=live }} By 2016, the Office of the Vice Provost and Dean of Research oversaw eighteen independent laboratories, centers, and institutes. Kathryn Ann Moler is the key person for leading those research centers for choosing problems, faculty members, and students. Funding is also provided for undergraduate and graduate students by those labs, centers, and institutes for collaborative research.{{cite web |url=https://doresearch.stanford.edu/node/1200502 |title=Interdisciplinary Laboratories, Centers, and Institutes |publisher=Stanford University |access-date=October 27, 2016 |archive-date=October 27, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161027192357/https://doresearch.stanford.edu/node/1200502 |url-status=live }} Other Stanford-affiliated institutions include the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (originally the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center), the Stanford Research Institute (an independent institution which originated at the university), the Hoover Institution (a conservative think tank),{{Cite news |date=2019 |title=Former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis to Return to Hoover Institution |work=U.S. News |url=https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2019-03-19/former-defense-secretary-jim-mattis-to-return-to-hoover-institution |access-date=November 16, 2020 |archive-date=September 13, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240913234022/https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2019-03-19/former-defense-secretary-jim-mattis-to-return-to-hoover-institution |url-status=live }} and the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (a multidisciplinary design school in cooperation with the Hasso Plattner Institute of University of Potsdam that integrates product design, engineering, and business management education).

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Stanford is home to the Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute, which grew out of and still contains the Martin Luther King Jr. Papers Project, a collaboration with the King Center to publish the King papers held by the King Center.{{cite web |title=The King Papers Project |date=June 11, 2014 |url=http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/kingpapers/index/ |publisher=The Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute |access-date=August 4, 2012 |archive-date=March 15, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150315034339/http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/kingpapers/index |url-status=dead }} It also runs the John S. Knight Fellowship for Professional Journalists and the Center for Ocean Solutions, which brings together marine science and policy to address challenges facing the ocean. It focuses on five points: climate change, overfishing, coastal development, pollution, and plastics.{{cite web |url=https://woods.stanford.edu/research/centers-programs/center-ocean-solutions |title=Center for Ocean Solutions |publisher=Stanford Woods |access-date=April 16, 2014 |archive-date=September 11, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170911084001/https://woods.stanford.edu/research/centers-programs/center-ocean-solutions |url-status=dead }} Together with UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco, Stanford is part of the Biohub, a new medical science research center founded in 2016 by a $600 million commitment from Facebook CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg and pediatrician Priscilla Chan. This medical research center is working for designing advanced-level health care units.{{Cite news |title=CNN Business News |work=CNN |url=https://money.cnn.com/2016/09/21/technology/chan-zuckerberg-initiative-3-billion-health-disease/index.html |access-date=March 10, 2022 |archive-date=September 13, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240913234015/https://money.cnn.com/2016/09/21/technology/chan-zuckerberg-initiative-3-billion-health-disease/index.html |url-status=live }}

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{{Main|Stanford University Libraries}}

By 2014, Stanford University Libraries (SUL) had twenty-four libraries in total. The Hoover Institution Library and Archives is a research center based on history of 20th-century.{{Cite web |title=The Hoover Institution Library and Archives |url=https://www.hoover.org/library-archives |access-date=May 19, 2022 |archive-date=February 27, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210227103001/https://www.hoover.org/library-archives |url-status=live }} Stanford University Libraries (SUL) held a collection of more than 9.3 million volumes, nearly 300,000 rare or special books, 1.5 million e-books, 2.5 million audiovisual materials, 77,000 serials, nearly 6 million microform holdings, and thousands of other digital resources.{{cite web |url=http://facts.stanford.edu/research/libraries |publisher=Stanford University |date=2014 |title=Stanford Facts: Stanford Libraries |access-date=December 11, 2014 |archive-date=February 23, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210223025359/https://facts.stanford.edu/research/libraries/ |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |title=Books, media, & more |url=https://searchworks.stanford.edu/ |access-date=May 19, 2022 |archive-date=May 17, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220517191438/https://searchworks.stanford.edu/ |url-status=live }} The main library in the SU library system is the Green Library, which also contains various meeting and conference rooms, study spaces, and reading rooms. Lathrop Library (previously Meyer Library, demolished in 2015), holds various student-accessible media resources and houses one of the largest East Asia collections with 540,000 volumes. Stanford University Press, founded in 1892, published about 130 books per year has printed more than 3,000 books.{{Cite web |title=Books |url=https://www.sup.org/books/ |access-date=May 19, 2022 |archive-date=May 19, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220519124154/https://www.sup.org/books/ |url-status=live }} It also has fifteen subject areas.{{Cite web |title=Stanford University Press (SUP) |url=https://www.sup.org/ |access-date=April 11, 2022 |archive-date=April 7, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220407190842/https://www.sup.org/ |url-status=live }}

{{main|Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy}}

The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is a leading online encyclopedia and academic resource on the subject of philosophy, published and maintained by the university. The encyclopedia was founded by Stanford senior researcher Edward Zalta in 1995.{{Cite journal|last=Zalta|first=Edward|date=2006-09-01|title=The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: A university/library partnership in support of scholarly communication and open access|journal=College & Research Libraries News|volume=67|issue=8|pages=502–504|doi=10.5860/crln.67.8.7670|issn=2150-6698|url=http://crln.acrl.org/index.php/crlnews/article/download/7670/7670|doi-access=free}}

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Stanford is home to the Cantor Center for Visual Arts, a museum established with the help of art collector B. Gerald Cantor. It today consists of twenty-four galleries, sculpture gardens, terraces, and a courtyard first established in 1891 by Jane and Leland Stanford as a memorial to their only child. The university's collection of works by Auguste Rodin is among the largest in the world,{{cite web |url=http://museum.stanford.edu/view/rodin.html |title=Rodin! The Complete Stanford Collection |publisher=Cantor Arts Center |access-date=April 16, 2014 |archive-date=May 13, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120513153638/http://museum.stanford.edu/view/rodin.html |url-status=live }} with as many as 200 sculptures at the Cantor Center alone. These include an original bronze cast of The Thinker granted residence at Stanford by Cantor in 1988, with the university expected to attain full ownership sometime in the future. The Stanford Thinker has been loaned for viewing around the world and features across the university's iconography and culture,[https://stanforddaily.com/2012/01/24/rodins-iconic-sculpture-the-thinker-returns-to-stanford/ "Rodin’s iconic sculpture, ‘The Thinker,’ returns to Stanford"] The Stanford Daily, 24 January 2012. Retrieved 18 December 2024.[https://stanfordmag.org/contents/hmmm-where-did-he-go "Hmmm . . . Where Did He Go?"] Stanford Magazine, April 2002. Retrieved 2024. including the logo of the Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

The Thomas Welton Stanford Gallery, which was built in 1917, serves as a teaching resource for the Department of Art & Art History as well as an exhibition venue. In 2014, Stanford opened the Anderson Collection, a new museum focused on postwar American art and founded by the donation of 121 works by food service moguls Mary and Harry Anderson.{{cite news |last=Drohojowska-Philp |first=Hunter |title=Stanford's Anderson Collection museum to feature trove of couple's art |location=Atherton, CA |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=July 11, 2014 |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-ca-hunk-moo-stanford-anderson-collection-20140713-story.html |access-date=May 10, 2020 |archive-date=August 7, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200807082042/https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-ca-hunk-moo-stanford-anderson-collection-20140713-story.html |url-status=live }}{{cite news |last=Whiting |first=Sam |title=Anderson Collection pieces lock in a home at Stanford |date=September 12, 2014 |publisher=SFGate |url=https://www.sfgate.com/art/article/Anderson-Collection-pieces-lock-in-a-home-at-5747113.php |access-date=May 10, 2020 |archive-date=August 7, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200807090027/https://www.sfgate.com/art/article/Anderson-Collection-pieces-lock-in-a-home-at-5747113.php |url-status=live }}{{cite news |last=Teicholz |first=Tom |title=The Museum of Hunk, Moo & Putter: The Anderson Collection at Stanford will Rock You |date=December 28, 2018 |newspaper=Forbes |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomteicholz/2018/12/28/the-museum-of-hunk-moo-putter-the-anderson-collection-at-stanford-will-rock-you/#415d93fb1408 |access-date=May 10, 2020 |archive-date=August 7, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200807092922/https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomteicholz/2018/12/28/the-museum-of-hunk-moo-putter-the-anderson-collection-at-stanford-will-rock-you/#415d93fb1408 |url-status=live }} There are outdoor art installations throughout the campus, primarily sculptures, but some murals as well. The Papua New Guinea Sculpture Garden near Roble Hall features wood carvings and "totem poles".

The Stanford music department sponsors many ensembles, including five choirs, the Stanford Symphony Orchestra, Stanford Taiko, and the Stanford Wind Ensemble. Extracurricular activities include theater groups such as Ram's Head Theatrical Society, the Stanford Improvisors,{{cite web |title=The Stanford Improvisors |url=http://stanfordimprovisors.com/ |access-date=March 11, 2022 |website=Stanford.edu |archive-date=March 20, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220320045339/https://www.stanfordimprovisors.com/ |url-status=live }} the Stanford Shakespeare Company, and the Stanford Savoyards, a group dedicated to performing the works of Gilbert and Sullivan. Stanford is also host to ten a cappella groups, including the Mendicants (Stanford's first),{{cite web |url=http://www.stanfordmendicants.com/ |title=About the Mendicants |access-date=July 22, 2012 |archive-date=February 23, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210223025408/https://www.stanfordmendicants.com/ |url-status=live }} Counterpoint (the first all-female group on the West Coast),{{cite web |url=https://web.stanford.edu/group/Counterpoint/ |title=About Counterpoint |access-date=July 22, 2012 |archive-date=July 1, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140701024619/http://web.stanford.edu/group/Counterpoint/ |url-status=dead}} the Harmonics, the Stanford Fleet Street Singers,{{cite web |url=http://www.fleetstreet.com/about |title=About Fleet Street |access-date=August 29, 2017 |archive-date=August 30, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170830104314/https://www.fleetstreet.com/about |url-status=dead}} Because Fleet Street maintains Stanford songs as a regular part of its performing repertoire, the university used the group as ambassadors during the university's centennial celebration and commissioned an album, entitled Up Toward Mountains Higher (1999), of Stanford songs which were sent to alumni around the world. Talisman, Everyday People, and Raagapella.{{cite web |url=http://www.raagapella.com/ |title=About Raagapella |access-date=August 25, 2012 |archive-date=January 26, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210126074814/http://www.raagapella.com/ |url-status=live }}

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Stanford is highly ranked by U.S. News & World Report,{{Cite web |date=2024-01-01 |title=Best Colleges: Stanford University |url=https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/stanford-university-1305 |website=U.S. News & World Report |access-date=February 4, 2021 |archive-date=September 13, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240913234026/https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/stanford-university-1305 |url-status=live }} Times Higher Education,{{Cite web |date=2024-06-07 |title=Stanford University |url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/stanford-university |access-date=2024-07-06 |website=Times Higher Education (THE) |language=en}} and QS World University Rankings.{{Cite web |title=Stanford University |url=https://www.topuniversities.com/universities/stanford-university |access-date=2024-07-06 |website=Top Universities |language=en-US}} As noted in The Wall Street Journal's 2024 rankings, "the usual players are almost always going to come out on top: The Princetons, the Stanfords, the Yales, the Harvards. They will jockey for those first few spots on whatever ranking you happen to be looking."{{Cite web |last=Bleizeffer |first=Kristy |date=2023-09-08 |title=Ranking: Wall Street Journal's 2024 Best Colleges In America |url=https://poetsandquantsforundergrads.com/news/ranking-wall-street-journals-2024-best-colleges-in-america/ |access-date=2024-07-06 |website=Poets&Quants for Undergrads |language=en-US |archive-date=September 8, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230908181948/https://poetsandquantsforundergrads.com/news/ranking-wall-street-journals-2024-best-colleges-in-america/ |url-status=live }}

In 2022, Washington Monthly ranked Stanford at 1st position in their annual list of top universities in the United States.{{cite web |url=https://washingtonmonthly.com/2022-college-guide/national/ |title=2022 National University Rankings |access-date=December 16, 2022 |archive-date=September 17, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220917093850/https://washingtonmonthly.com/2022-college-guide/national/ |url-status=live }} In 2019, Stanford University took 1st place on Reuters' list of the World's Most Innovative Universities for the fifth consecutive year.{{cite web |title=The World's Most Innovative Universities 2019 |url=https://www.reuters.com/innovative-universities-2019 |website=Reuters |access-date=December 16, 2022 |archive-date=November 29, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201129071951/https://www.reuters.com/innovative-universities-2019 |url-status=live }} Stanford Graduate School of Business has consistently been both the most selective business school in the world{{Cite web |last1=Kowarski |first1=Ilana |last2=Claybourn |first2=Cole |date=2024-06-05 |title=15 Business Schools With Lowest Acceptance Rates |url=https://www.usnews.com/education/best-graduate-schools/the-short-list-grad-school/articles/business-schools-with-the-lowest-acceptance-rates |website=U.S. News & World Report}} and consistently ranked 1st in the list of best business schools year-over-year consecutively by various reputed studies including Bloomberg Businessweek{{Cite news |last=Kessenides |first=Dimitra |date=2023-09-13 |title=These Are the Best Business Schools in the World |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/business-schools/ |access-date=2024-07-06 |work=Bloomberg.com |language=en |archive-date=April 7, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240407022859/https://www.bloomberg.com/business-schools/ |url-status=live }} and U.S. News & World Report for 2024.{{Cite web |date=2024-01-01 |title=2024 Best Business Schools |url=https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-business-schools/mba-rankings |website=U.S. News & World Report |access-date=July 6, 2024 |archive-date=March 14, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120314003952/https://www.usnews.com/best%2Dgraduate%2Dschools/top%2Dbusiness%2Dschools/mba%2Drankings |url-status=live }} Stanford Law School is also consistently been amongst the two most selective law schools in the world{{Cite web |last=Wood |first=Sarah |date=2024-04-09 |title=16 Law Schools That Are Hardest to Get Into |url=https://www.usnews.com/education/best-graduate-schools/the-short-list-grad-school/articles/law-schools-that-are-hardest-to-get-into |website=U.S. News & World Report |access-date=July 6, 2024 |archive-date=June 7, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240607070754/https://www.usnews.com/education/best-graduate-schools/the-short-list-grad-school/articles/law-schools-that-are-hardest-to-get-into |url-status=live }} and consistently ranked 1st in the list of best law schools year-over-year consecutively for 2024 in U.S. News & World Report.{{Cite web |date=2024-01-01 |title=2024 Best Law Schools |url=https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-law-schools/law-rankings?_sort=my_rankings-asc |website=U.S. News & World Report |access-date=July 6, 2024 |archive-date=June 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240611161156/https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-law-schools/law-rankings?_sort=my_rankings-asc |url-status=live }}

In a 2022 survey by The Princeton Review, Stanford was ranked 1st among the top ten "dream colleges" of America, and was considered to be the ultimate "dream college" of both students and parents.{{cite web |date=March 27, 2022 |title=These are the country's 'dream' colleges, but price remains the top concern |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/27/these-are-the-countrys-top-dream-colleges.html |website=CNBC}}{{cite web |title=2022 College Hopes & Worries Press Release |url=https://www.princetonreview.com/press/college-hopes-worries-press-release-2022}} From polls of college applicants done by The Princeton Review, every year from 2013 to 2020 the most commonly named "dream college" for students was Stanford; separately, parents, too, most frequently named Stanford their ultimate "dream college".{{cite news |title=College Hopes & Worries Press Release |url=https://www.princetonreview.com/press/college-hopes-worries-press-release |access-date=August 28, 2017 |publisher=Princeton Review |language=en |archive-date=October 7, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191007224857/https://www.princetonreview.com/press/college-hopes-worries-press-release |url-status=live }}{{cite news |date=March 17, 2020 |title=2020 College Hopes & Worries Press Release |url=https://www.princetonreview.com/press/college-hopes-worries-press-release |access-date=May 3, 2021 |work=Princeton Review |archive-date=October 7, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191007224857/https://www.princetonreview.com/press/college-hopes-worries-press-release |url-status=live }} The Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) ranked Stanford second in the world (after Harvard) most years from 2003 to 2020.{{cite web |title=Academic Ranking of World Universities 2022 |url=http://www.shanghairanking.com/rankings/arwu/2021 |access-date=March 30, 2022 |website=Shanghai Ranking |archive-date=August 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210815040132/https://www.shanghairanking.com/rankings/arwu/2021 |url-status=live }} Times Higher Education recognizes Stanford as one of the world's "six super brands" on its World Reputation Rankings, along with Berkeley, Cambridge, Harvard, MIT, and Oxford.{{cite news |last=Baty |first=Phil |date=January 1, 1990 |title=Birds? Planes? No, colossal 'super-brands': Top Six Universities |url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/2012/reputation-ranking/analysis/top-six-6-universities |access-date=May 3, 2021 |work=Times Higher Education |archive-date=August 4, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190804225717/https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/2012/reputation-ranking/analysis/top-six-6-universities |url-status=live }}{{cite news |last=Ross |first=Duncan |date=May 10, 2016 |title=World University Rankings blog: how the 'university superbrands' compare |url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/blog/world-university-rankings-blog-how-university-superbrands-compare |access-date=May 3, 2021 |work=Times Higher Education |archive-date=March 24, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190324122624/https://www.timeshighereducation.com/blog/world-university-rankings-blog-how-university-superbrands-compare |url-status=live }}

File:Felix Bloch 1950s.jpg, physics professor, 1952 Nobel laureate for his work at Stanford]]

• Biological synthesis of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) – Arthur Kornberg discovered the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic acid, and won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1959 for his work at Stanford.{{Cite web |title=The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1959 |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1959/kornberg/facts/ |access-date=April 21, 2022 |website=nobelprize.org}} By studying bacteria, Kornberg succeeded in isolating DNA polymerase in 1956–an enzyme that is active in the formation of DNA.
• First Transgenic organism – Stanley Cohen and Herbert Boyer were the first scientists to transplant genes from one living organism to another, a fundamental discovery for genetic engineering.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pOdHrsTZ-RYC&pg=PA46 |title=A to Z of biologists |last1=Yount |first1=Lisa |date=2003 |publisher=Facts on File |isbn=978-0-8160-4541-9 |location=New York |pages=47–49 |access-date=May 4, 2016}}{{cite journal |last1=Cohen |first1=S. N. |date=September 16, 2013 |title=DNA cloning: A personal view after 40 years |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |volume=110 |issue=39 |pages=15521–15529 |doi=10.1073/pnas.1313397110 |pmc=3785787 |pmid=24043817 |bibcode=2013PNAS..11015521C |doi-access=free |issn=0027-8424}} Thousands of products have been developed on the basis of their work, including human growth hormone and hepatitis B vaccine.
• Laser – Arthur Leonard Schawlow shared the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physics with Nicolaas Bloembergen and Kai Siegbahn for his work on lasers.{{cite web |url=http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Arthur_L._Schawlow |title=Arthur L. Schawlow |work=IEEE Global History Network |publisher=IEEE |access-date=August 10, 2011 |archive-date=October 19, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141019015134/http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Arthur_L._Schawlow |url-status=live }}{{cite journal |author=Hänsch, Theodor W. |author-link=Theodor W. Hänsch |date=December 1999 |title=Obituary: Arthur Leonard Schawlow |url=http://www.physicstoday.org/resource/1/phtoad/v52/i12/p75_s2?bypassSSO=1 |journal=Physics Today |volume=52 |issue=12 |pages=75–76 |bibcode=1999PhT....52l..75H |doi=10.1063/1.2802854}}
• Nuclear magnetic resonance – Felix Bloch developed new methods for nuclear magnetic precision measurements, which are the underlying principles of MRI.{{cite journal |last1=Alvarez |first1=Luis W. |author-link=Luis Walter Alvarez |last2=Bloch |first2=F. |year=1940 |title=A Quantitative Determination of the Neutron Moment in Absolute Nuclear Magnetons |journal=Physical Review |volume=57 |issue=2 |pages=111–122 |bibcode=1940PhRv...57..111A |doi=10.1103/PhysRev.57.111}}{{cite journal |last1=Bloch |first1=F. |last2=Hansen |first2=W. W. |author-link2=W. W. Hansen |last3=Packard |first3=Martin |date=February 1, 1946 |title=Nuclear Induction |journal=Physical Review |volume=69 |issue=3–4 |page=127 |bibcode=1946PhRv...69..127B |doi=10.1103/PhysRev.69.127 |doi-access=free}}

File:Dr_Vint_Cerf_ForMemRS.jpg, co-leader of the Stanford team that designed the architecture of the internet]]

• ARPANET – Stanford Research Institute, formerly part of Stanford but on a separate campus, was the site of one of the four original ARPANET nodes.{{cite web |url=http://itservices.stanford.edu/service/network |title=Network (SUNet — The Stanford University Network) |date=July 16, 2010 |publisher=Stanford University Information Technology Services |access-date=April 11, 2011 |archive-date=December 11, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151211022334/https://itservices.stanford.edu/service/network |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=http://university-discoveries.com/stanford-university |title=Stanford University |publisher=University Discoveries |access-date=February 8, 2017}} In the early 1970s, Bob Kahn & Vint Cerf's research project about Internetworking, later DARPA formulated it to the TCP (Transmission Control Program).{{Cite web |title=ARPANET – A Protocol for Packet Network Intercommunication |url=https://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/fall06/cos561/papers/cerf74.pdf |access-date=May 19, 2022 |archive-date=October 10, 2022 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221010/https://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/fall06/cos561/papers/cerf74.pdf |url-status=live }}
• Internet – Stanford was the site where the original design of the Internet was undertaken. Vint Cerf led a research group to elaborate the design of the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP/IP) that he originally co-created with Robert E. Kahn (Bob Kahn) in 1973 and which formed the basis for the architecture of the Internet.{{Cite journal |title=The day the Internet age began – Nature, Volume 461, Issue 7268, pp. 1202–1203 (2009). |url=https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009Natur.461.1202C/abstract |access-date=April 26, 2022 |journal=Nature |bibcode=2009Natur.461.1202C |last1=Cerf |first1=Vinton G. |year=2009 |volume=461 |issue=7268 |pages=1202–1203 |doi=10.1038/4611202a |pmid=19865146 |s2cid=205049153 |archive-date=May 7, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220507211727/https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009Natur.461.1202C/abstract |url-status=live }}
• Frequency modulation synthesis – John Chowning of the Music department invented the FM music synthesis algorithm in 1967, and Stanford later licensed it to Yamaha Corporation.{{Cite journal |title=Johnstone, Robert |url=https://www.academia.edu/2680140 |access-date=April 29, 2022 |website=academia |date=January 1994 |last1=Johnstone |first1=Robert |archive-date=February 9, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230209121735/https://www.academia.edu/2680140 |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |title=An Introduction To FM |url=https://ccrma.stanford.edu/software/snd/snd/fm.html |access-date=May 1, 2022 |website=stanford |archive-date=May 22, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220522085732/https://ccrma.stanford.edu/software/snd/snd/fm.html |url-status=live }}
• Google – Google began in January 1996 as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, when they were both PhD students at Stanford.{{cite web |url=http://www.google.com/intl/en/corporate/history.html |title=Google Milestones |publisher=Google, Inc. |access-date=September 28, 2010 |archive-date=May 20, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110520212930/http://www.google.com/intl/en/corporate/history.html |url-status=live }} They were working on the Stanford Digital Library Project (SDLP) which is started in 1999. The SDLP's goal was "to develop the enabling technologies for a single, integrated and universal digital library",{{Cite web |title=The Stanford Digital Library Technologies |url=http://diglib.stanford.edu:8091/ |access-date=April 28, 2022 |website=stanford |archive-date=April 18, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220418032359/http://diglib.stanford.edu:8091/ |url-status=live }} and it was funded through the National Science Foundation, among other federal agencies.[https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=9411306 The Stanford Integrated Digital Library Project] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090508033156/https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=9411306 |date=May 8, 2009 }}, Award Abstract #9411306, September 1, 1994, through August 31, 1999 (Estimated), award amount $521,111,001 Today, Google stands as one of the most valuable brands in the world.
• Klystron tube – invented by the brothers Russell and Sigurd Varian at Stanford.{{Cite web |title=The Klystron: A Microwave Source of Surprising Range and Endurance |url=https://www.slac.stanford.edu/pubs/slacpubs/7500/slac-pub-7731.pdf |access-date=April 19, 2022 |website=slac stanford |archive-date=June 29, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230629115619/https://www.slac.stanford.edu/pubs/slacpubs/7500/slac-pub-7731.pdf |url-status=live }} Their prototype was completed and demonstrated successfully on August 30, 1937.Varian, Dorothy. "The Inventor and the Pilot". Pacific Books, 1983 p. 187 Upon publication in 1939, news of the klystron immediately influenced the work of U.S. and UK researchers working on radar equipment.{{Cite web |title=Russell and Sigurd Varian: Inventing The Klystron And Saving Civilization |url=https://www.electronicdesign.com/technologies/communications/article/21795573/russell-and-sigurd-varian-inventing-the-klystron-and-saving-civilization |access-date=April 1, 2022 |website=electronicdesign|date=November 22, 2010 }}{{Cite web |title=Guide to the Russell and Sigurd Varian Papers |url=https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf3h4nb03j/entire_text/ |access-date=April 29, 2022 |website=cdlib}}
• RISC – ARPA funded VLSI project of microprocessor design. Stanford and UC Berkeley are most associated with the popularization of this concept. The Stanford MIPS would go on to be commercialized as the successful MIPS architecture, while Berkeley RISC gave its name to the entire concept, commercialized as the SPARC. Another success from this era were IBM's efforts that eventually led to the IBM POWER instruction set architecture, PowerPC, and Power ISA. As these projects matured, a wide variety of similar designs flourished in the late 1980s and especially the early 1990s, representing a major force in the Unix workstation market as well as embedded processors in laser printers, routers and similar products.{{cite book |title=Milestones in Computer Science and Information Technology |url=https://archive.org/details/milestonesincomp0000reil |url-access=registration |last=Reilly |first=Edwin D. |year=2003 |isbn=1-57356-521-0 |page=[https://archive.org/details/milestonesincomp0000reil/page/50 50]|publisher=Bloomsbury Academic }}
• SUN workstation – Andy Bechtolsheim designed the SUN workstation,{{Cite book |title=High Noon: The Inside Story of Scott McNealy and the Rise of Sun Microsystems |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rQl4169IA4kC&q=german&pg=PA88 |access-date=April 19, 2022 |isbn=9780471297130 |last1=Southwick |first1=Karen |date=August 27, 1999| publisher=John Wiley & Sons }} for the Stanford University Network communications project as a personal CAD workstation,{{cite web |url=http://i.stanford.edu/TR/CSL-TR-82-229.html |title=The SUN Workstation Architecture |author1=Andreas Bechtolsheim |author2=Forest Baskett |date=March 1982 |work=Stanford University Computer systems Laboratory Technical Report No. 229 |access-date=July 5, 2018 |author3=Vaughan Pratt}} which led to Sun Microsystems.
• MIMO - Arogyaswami Paulraj and Thomas Kailath invented multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) radio communications, which involves simultaneously using multiple antennas on receivers and transmitters. Invented in 1992, MIMO is an essential element in many modern wireless technologies today.{{cite web |author=Marconi Society |url=https://marconisociety.org/fellow-bio/arogyaswami-paulraj/ |title= Arogyaswami Paulraj, 2014 Marconi Prize recipient, Honored for his pioneering contributions to developing the theory and applications of MIMO antennas |date=October 28, 2014 |access-date=October 19, 2024}}

{{Main|List of companies founded by Stanford University alumni}}

Stanford is one of the most successful universities worldwide in creating companies and licensing its inventions to existing companies, and it is often considered the model for technology transfer.Nigel Page. {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20160623234754/http://www.iphandbook.org/handbook/ch17/p13/ The Making of a Licensing Legend: Stanford University's Office of Technology Licensing]}}. Chapter 17.13 in Sharing the Art of IP Management. Globe White Page Ltd, London, U.K. 2007Timothy Lenoir. Inventing the entrepreneurial university: Stanford and the co-evolution of Silicon Valley pp. 88–128 in Building Technology Transfer within Research Universities: An Entrepreneurial Approach Edited by Thomas J. Allen and Rory P. O'Shea. Cambridge University Press, 2014. {{ISBN|9781139046930}} Stanford's Office of Technology Licensing is responsible for commercializing university research, intellectual property, and university-developed projects. The university is described as having a strong venture culture in which students are encouraged, and often funded, to launch their own companies.{{cite news |last=McBride |first=Sarah |date=December 12, 2014 |title=Special Report: At Stanford, venture capital reaches into the dorm |language=en-US |work=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-startup-stanford-specialreport/special-report-at-stanford-venture-capital-reaches-into-the-dorm-idUSKBN0JO20D20141212 |access-date=October 28, 2017 |archive-date=May 23, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230523083029/https://reuters.com/article/us-usa-startup-stanford-specialreport/special-report-at-stanford-venture-capital-reaches-into-the-dorm-idUSKBN0JO20D20141212 |url-status=live }} Companies founded by Stanford alumni generate more than $2.7 trillion in annual revenue and have created some 5.4 million jobs since the 1930s.{{Cite web |title=Stanford alumni create nearly $3 trillion in economic impact each year |url=https://news.stanford.edu/news/2012/october/innovation-economic-impact-102412.html#:~:text=October%2024%2C%202012-,Study%20shows%20Stanford%20alumni%20create%20nearly%20%243%20trillion%20in%20economic,have%20created%205.4%20million%20jobs. |access-date=January 17, 2022 |website=stanford |date=October 24, 2012 |archive-date=January 28, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220128181416/https://news.stanford.edu/news/2012/october/innovation-economic-impact-102412.html#:~:text=October%2024%2C%202012-,Study%20shows%20Stanford%20alumni%20create%20nearly%20%243%20trillion%20in%20economic,have%20created%205.4%20million%20jobs. |url-status=dead }} When combined, these companies would form the tenth-largest economy in the world.{{cite news |last1=Silver |first1=Caleb |date=March 18, 2020 |title=The Top 20 Economies in the World |url=https://www.investopedia.com/insights/worlds-top-economies/ |access-date=March 18, 2020 |work=Investopedia |language=en-US |archive-date=July 17, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210717023208/https://www.investopedia.com/insights/worlds-top-economies/ |url-status=live }}

Some notable companies closely associated with Stanford and their connections include:

{{Image frame|width=250|content=125px 125px|caption=Co-founders of Hewlett-Packard, Bill Hewlett (BS 1934) and David Packard (BA 1934)|align=right}}

• Hewlett-Packard, 1939: co-founders William R. Hewlett (B.S, PhD) and David Packard (M.S){{Cite web |title=HPE History |url=https://www.hpe.com/us/en/about/history.html |access-date=April 23, 2022 |website=hpe |archive-date=June 27, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210627171425/https://www.hpe.com/us/en/about/history.html |url-status=live }}
• Silicon Graphics, 1981: co-founders James H. Clark (Associate Professor) and several of his graduate students{{Cite book |last=Bowen |first=Jonathan |title=Encyclopedia of Computers and Computer History |date=2001 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1579582357 |editor-last=Rojas |editor-first=Raúl |pages=[https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofco0000unse_a6j4/page/709 709–710] |chapter=Silicon Graphics, Inc. |author-link=Jonathan Bowen |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofco0000unse_a6j4/page/709}}
• Sun Microsystems, 1982:{{Cite web |title=Sun Microsystems Getting Started |url=http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/coinfo/history.html#1982 |archive-date=August 27, 2006 |access-date=March 11, 2022 |website=sun |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060827003752/http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/coinfo/history.html#1982}} co-founders Vinod Khosla (M.B.A), Andy Bechtolsheim (PhD) and Scott McNealy (M.B.A)
• Cisco, 1984:{{Cite news |last=Toscano |first=Paul |date=April 17, 2013 |title=Cisco Co-Founder |work=CNBC |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2013/04/17/tech-companies-are-doing-it-wrong-cisco-cofounder.html |access-date=January 19, 2022 |archive-date=January 29, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200129081730/https://www.cnbc.com/id/100649533 |url-status=live }} co-founders Leonard Bosack (M.S) and Sandy Lerner (M.S) were in charge of the Stanford Computer Science and the Graduate School of Business computer operations groups, respectively, when the hardware was developed{{cite news |last1=Duffy |first1=Jim |title=Critical milestones in Cisco history |url=https://www.networkworld.com/article/2291489/lan-wan/critical-milestones-in-cisco-history.html#slide1 |access-date=November 28, 2017 |work=Network World |language=en |archive-date=December 1, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201033835/https://www.networkworld.com/article/2291489/lan-wan/critical-milestones-in-cisco-history.html#slide1 |url-status=dead}}
• Nvidia, 1993:{{Cite web |title=Jensen Huang |url=http://nvidianews.nvidia.com/bios/jensen-huang |access-date=2024-07-06 |website=NVIDIA Newsroom |language=en-us |archive-date=May 23, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240523155233/https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/bios/jensen-huang |url-status=live }} co-founder Jensen Huang (M.S)
• Yahoo!, 1994:{{Cite web |last=Goel |first=Vindu |date=July 24, 2016 |title=Yahoo's Sale to Verizon Ends an Era |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/25/business/yahoo-sale.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170216035326/https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/25/business/yahoo-sale.html |archive-date=February 16, 2017 |access-date=February 25, 2022 |website=The New York Times}} co-founders Jerry Yang (B.S, M.S) and David Filo (M.S)
• Netflix, 1997:{{Cite web |title=Reed Hastings {{!}} Stanford University School of Engineering |url=https://engineering.stanford.edu/about/heroes/2016-heroes/reed-hastings |access-date=2024-07-06 |website=engineering.stanford.edu |language=en |archive-date=July 6, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240706184943/https://engineering.stanford.edu/about/heroes/2016-heroes/reed-hastings |url-status=live }} co-founder Reed Hastings (M.S)
• Google, 1998:{{Cite web |title=How we started and where we are today & Our history in depth – Google |url=https://about.google/our-story/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120401005940/http://www.google.com/about/company/history/ |archive-date=April 1, 2012 |access-date=January 7, 2021 |website=about.google}} co-founders Larry Page (M.S) and Sergey Brin (M.S)
• PayPal, 1998:{{Cite web |last=O'Connell |first=Brian |date=2020-01-02 |title=History of PayPal: Timeline and Facts |url=https://www.thestreet.com/technology/history-of-paypal-15062744 |access-date=2024-07-06 |website=TheStreet |language=en-us |archive-date=July 6, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240706184943/https://www.thestreet.com/technology/history-of-paypal-15062744 |url-status=live }} co-founders Ken Howery (B.A), Peter Thiel (B.A, J.D), Elon Musk (Accepted into graduate program although never enrolled){{cite web |last1=Porteous |first1=George |title=Elon Musk's brief Stanford affiliation raises questions about previous immigration status |url=https://stanforddaily.com/2024/11/11/elon-musk-stanford-work-status/ |website=The Stanford Daily |date=November 11, 2024 |access-date=December 3, 2024}}
• VMware, 1998:{{Cite web |title=VMware Founders Professorship of Computer Science |url=https://graphics.stanford.edu/~levoy/vmware.html |access-date=2024-07-06 |website=graphics.stanford.edu}} co-founders Mendel Rosenblum (Professor) and Edouard Bugnion (M.S)
• LinkedIn, 2002:{{Cite web |date=May 5, 2003 |title=Founders |url=https://about.linkedin.com/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210528075044/https://about.linkedin.com/ |archive-date=May 28, 2021 |access-date=March 15, 2022 |website=LinkedIn}} co-founders Reid Hoffman (B.S), Konstantin Guericke (B.S, M.S), Eric Lee (B.S), and Alan Liu (B.S)
• YouTube, 2005:{{Cite web |last=Communications |first=Grainger Engineering Office of Marketing and |title=Jawed Karim |url=https://grainger.illinois.edu/alumni/hall-of-fame/Jawed-Karim |access-date=2024-07-06 |website=grainger.illinois.edu |language=en |archive-date=July 6, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240706184943/https://grainger.illinois.edu/alumni/hall-of-fame/Jawed-Karim |url-status=live }} co-founder Jawed Karim (M.S)
• Instagram, 2010:{{Cite web |last=Zeen |first=Anna |date=October 1, 2020 |title=Feature Updates – First Instagram post |url=https://zeen.com/who-owns-instagram/ |access-date=April 20, 2022 |website=zeen |archive-date=April 18, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230418221606/https://zeen.com/who-owns-instagram/ |url-status=live }} co-founders Kevin Systrom (B.S) and Mike Krieger (B.S){{Cite web |last=Siegler |first=MG |date=October 6, 2010 |title=Instagram Launches With The Hope Of Igniting Communication Through Images |url=https://techcrunch.com/2010/10/06/instagram-launch/ |access-date=April 18, 2022 |website=techcrunch |archive-date=October 28, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201028025750/https://techcrunch.com/2010/10/06/instagram-launch/ |url-status=live }}
• Snapchat, 2011: co-founders Evan Spiegel (B.S), Reggie Brown (B.S) and Bobby Murphy (B.S){{Cite news |last=Oconnell |first=Brian |date=February 28, 2020 |title=History of Snapchat |work=thestreet |url=https://www.thestreet.com/technology/history-of-snapchat#:~:text=Snapchat%20was%20founded%20in%202011,site%20after%20a%20few%20moments. |access-date=April 2, 2022 |archive-date=May 27, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220527180002/https://www.thestreet.com/technology/history-of-snapchat#:~:text=Snapchat%20was%20founded%20in%202011,site%20after%20a%20few%20moments. |url-status=live }}
• Coursera, 2012:{{Cite news |date=March 30, 2021 |title=About Coursera |language=en-US |url=https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210330006145/en/Coursera-Announces-Pricing-of-Initial-Public-Offering |access-date=May 25, 2022 |archive-date=May 17, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220517113412/https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210330006145/en/Coursera-Announces-Pricing-of-Initial-Public-Offering |url-status=live }} co-founders Andrew Ng (Associate Professor) and Daphne Koller (Professor, PhD)
• DoorDash, 2013:{{Cite web |date=2024-07-02 |title=DoorDash CEO: Solving Problems of Time-Starved People |url=https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/doordash-ceo-solving-problems-time-starved-people |access-date=2024-07-06 |website=Stanford Graduate School of Business |language=en |archive-date=April 19, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230419081205/https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/doordash-ceo-solving-problems-time-starved-people |url-status=live }} co-founders Tony Xu (M.B.A) and Evan Moore (M.B.A)

Stanford enrolled 6,996 undergraduate and 10,253 graduate students in the 2019–2020 school year. Women made up 50.4% of undergraduates and 41.5% of graduate students. In the same academic year, the freshman retention rate was 99%. Stanford awarded 1,819 undergraduate degrees, 2,393 master's degrees, 770 doctoral degrees, and 3270 professional degrees in the 2018–2019 school year. The four-year graduation rate for the class of 2017 cohort was 72.9%, and the six-year rate was 94.4%. The relatively low four-year graduation rate is a function of the university's coterminal degree (or "coterm") program, which allows students to earn a master's degree as a 1-to-2-year extension of their undergraduate program.{{cite web |url=http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/college/highest-grad-rate |title=Best Colleges—Education |work=U.S. News & World Report |date=August 19, 2009 |access-date=July 9, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090314054424/http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/college/highest-grad-rate |archive-date=March 14, 2009}} In 2010, 15% of undergraduates were first-generation students.{{cite news |url=http://www.stanforddaily.com/2010/10/01/concerns-of-first-generation-students-must-remain-a-priority/ |title=Concerns of first-generation students must remain a priority |date=October 1, 2010 |work=The Stanford Daily |access-date=January 31, 2011 |archive-date=February 23, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210223025538/https://www.stanforddaily.com/2010/10/01/concerns-of-first-generation-students-must-remain-a-priority/ |url-status=live }}

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By 2013, 89% of undergraduate students lived in on-campus university housing. First-year undergraduates are required to live on campus, and all undergraduates are guaranteed housing for all four undergraduate years.{{cite web |url=https://web.stanford.edu/dept/rde/cgi-bin/drupal/housing/apply/apply-housing |title=Stanford University—Student Housing—Apply for Housing 2013–14 |publisher=Stanford.edu |access-date=February 2, 2014 |archive-date=June 24, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140624014137/http://web.stanford.edu/dept/rde/cgi-bin/drupal/housing/apply/apply-housing |url-status=dead}} Undergraduates live in 80 different houses, including dormitories, co-ops, row houses, and fraternities and sororities.{{cite web |url=https://resed.stanford.edu/residences |title=Stanford Housing—Undergraduate Residences |publisher=Stanford University |access-date=November 27, 2008 |archive-date=June 11, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160611010444/https://resed.stanford.edu/residences |url-status=live }} At Manzanita Park, 118 mobile homes were installed as "temporary" housing from 1969 to 1991, but have become the site of newer dorms Castano, Kimball, Lantana, and the Humanities House, completed in 2015.{{cite web |url=http://news.stanford.edu/pr/91/910724Arc1246.html |title=Manzanita trailers to house Webb Ranch workers |publisher=News.stanford.edu |access-date=July 9, 2010 |archive-date=July 29, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100729084308/http://news.stanford.edu/pr/91/910724Arc1246.html |url-status=dead}}{{cite news |last1=Chelsey |first1=Kate |title=Manzanita residence hall aims at humanities |url=http://news.stanford.edu/news/2015/march/humanities-house-dorm-032015.html |access-date=October 24, 2015 |work=Stanford Report |publisher=Stanford University |date=March 20, 2015 |archive-date=September 20, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150920041527/http://news.stanford.edu/news/2015/march/humanities-house-dorm-032015.html |url-status=dead }} Most student residences are just outside the campus core, within ten minutes (on foot or bike) of most classrooms and libraries. Some are reserved for freshmen, sophomores, or upper-class students and some are open to all four classes. Most residences are co-ed; seven are all-male fraternities, three are all-female sororities, and there is also one all-female non-sorority house, Roth House. In most residences, men and women live on the same floor, but some have single-gender floors.{{cite web |url=https://web.stanford.edu/dept/rde/shs/ugrad/wilbur.htm#junipero |archive-date=October 9, 2015 |archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20151009205734/https://rde.stanford.edu/studenthousing/#junipero |url-status=dead |title=Stanford University—Student Housing—Tour Undergraduate Housing |publisher=Stanford.edu |access-date=July 9, 2010}}

Several residences are considered "theme" houses; predating the current classification system are Columbae (Social Change Through Nonviolence, since 1970),{{cite web |url=https://resed.stanford.edu/residences/find-house/columbae |title=Columbae House |publisher=Stanford University |access-date=April 10, 2012 |archive-date=June 11, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160611034746/https://resed.stanford.edu/residences/find-house/columbae |url-status=dead}} and Synergy (Exploring Alternatives, since 1972).{{cite web |url=https://web.stanford.edu/group/synergy/ |title=Synergy House |publisher=Stanford University |access-date=April 10, 2012 |archive-date=November 2, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141102100407/http://web.stanford.edu/group/synergy/ |url-status=dead}} The Academic, Language, and Culture Houses include EAST (Education and Society Themed House), Hammarskjöld (International Themed House), Haus Mitteleuropa (Central European Themed House), La Casa Italiana (Italian Language and Culture), La Maison Française (French Language and Culture House), Slavianskii Dom (Slavic/East European Themed House), Storey (Human Biology Themed House), and Yost (Spanish Language and Culture). Cross-Cultural Themed Houses include Casa Zapata (Chicano/Latino Theme in Stern Hall), Muwekma-tah-ruk (American Indian/Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian Themed House), Okada (Asian-American Themed House in Wilbur Hall), and Ujamaa (Black/African-American Themed House in Lagunita Court). Focus Houses include Freshman-Sophomore College (Academic Focus), Branner Hall (Community Service), Kimball (Arts & Performing Arts), Crothers (Global Citizenship), and Toyon (Sophomore Priority). Co-ops or "Self-Ops" are another housing option.

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These houses feature cooperative living, where residents and eating associates each contribute work to keep the house running, such as cooking meals or cleaning shared spaces. These houses have unique themes around which their community is centered. Many co-ops are hubs of music, art and philosophy. The co-ops on campus are 576 Alvarado Row (formerly Chi Theta Chi), Columbae, Enchanted Broccoli Forest (EBF), Hammarskjöld, Kairos, Terra (the unofficial LGBT house),{{cite web |url=https://web.stanford.edu/group/coop/cgi-bin/public/wiki.php?wikiid=1&pagename=Terra |title=About Terra |work=ResEd |publisher=Stanford University |access-date=February 8, 2016 |archive-date=February 16, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160216121632/http://web.stanford.edu/group/coop/cgi-bin/public/wiki.php?wikiid=1&pagename=Terra |url-status=live }} and Synergy.{{cite web |url=https://web.stanford.edu/dept/resed/Staff/StaffResources/StudentMgmt/CoOps.html |title=Residential Education—Cooperative Houses |publisher=Stanford University |access-date=November 27, 2008}}{{Dead link|date=June 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Phi Sigma, at 1018 Campus Drive was formerly Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity, but in 1973 became a Self-Op.This chapter had voiced concern that women were being treated unfairly due to the campus ban on sororities. Nu Deuteron Chapter voted to become co-ed in 1973, [https://archive.org/stream/signet6465phis/signet6465phis_djvu.txt relinquishing its charter over the matter], according to fraternity records (accessed November 17, 2016). This occurred just four years before the ban on sororities was ended by the Regents. By 2015, 55 percent of the graduate student population lived on campus.{{cite news |last1=Lapin |first1=Lisa |last2=Chelsey |first2=Kate |title=New graduate housing proposed for Escondido Village |url=http://news.stanford.edu/news/2015/october/grad-housing-proposal-102215.html |access-date=October 24, 2015 |work=Stanford Report |publisher=Stanford University |date=October 22, 2015 |archive-date=October 23, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151023090314/http://news.stanford.edu/news/2015/october/grad-housing-proposal-102215.html |url-status=dead }} Stanford also subsidizes off-campus apartments in nearby Palo Alto, Menlo Park, and Mountain View for graduate students who are guaranteed on-campus housing but are unable to live on campus due to a lack of space.{{cite web |title=Off Campus Subsidized Apartments |url=https://rde.stanford.edu/studenthousing/off-campus-subsidized-apartments |website=Student Housing |publisher=Stanford University |access-date=October 24, 2015 |archive-date=October 9, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151009212655/https://rde.stanford.edu/studenthousing/off-campus-subsidized-apartments |url-status=dead}}

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In 2016, Stanford had sixteen male varsity sports and twenty female varsity sports,[http://www.gostanford.com/ Stanford Sports] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150401192801/http://www.gostanford.com/ |date=April 1, 2015 }} Page accessed June 11, 2016 nineteen club sports,{{cite web |url=http://cardinalrec.stanford.edu/clubsports/ |archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20150409211134/http://cardinalrec.stanford.edu/clubsports/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=April 9, 2015 |title=Stanford Cardinal Recreation – Club Sports |publisher=Stanford University |access-date=June 11, 2016}} and about 27 intramural sports.[https://archive.today/20160614202207/http://cardinalrec.stanford.edu/intramurals/Stanford Cardinal Recreation – Intramural Sports] Page accessed June 11, 2016 The Stanford Tree is the Stanford Band's mascot and the unofficial mascot of Stanford University. Stanford's team name is the "Cardinal", referring to the vivid Stanford Cardinal Red color (not the common songbird as at several other schools); the university does not have an official mascot. The Tree has been called one of America's most bizarre and controversial college mascots;{{cite web |last=Howell |first=Sean |date=2005-09-26 |title=How the Card got its color |url=http://daily.stanford.edu/article/2005/9/26/howTheCardGotItsColor |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070129082745/http://daily.stanford.edu/article/2005/9/26/howTheCardGotItsColor |archive-date=2007-01-29 |access-date=2007-04-14 |website=The Stanford Daily}} it regularly appears at the top of Internet "worst mascot" lists,{{cite web |last=Whitt |first=Richie |date=2008-11-20 |title=The 10 Worst Sports Mascots of All-Time |url=http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/sportatorium/2008/11/the_10_worst_sports_mascots_of.php |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090225103655/https://blogs.dallasobserver.com/sportatorium/2008/11/the_10_worst_sports_mascots_of.php |archive-date=2009-02-25 |access-date=2009-09-24 |website=Sportatorium |publisher=Dallas Observer}}{{cite web |last=Golokhov |first=Dave |title=Top 10 Lame Sports Mascots |url=http://www.askmen.com/top_10/fitness/54c_fitness_list.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090517003217/https://www.askmen.com/top_10/fitness/54c_fitness_list.html |archive-date=2009-05-17 |access-date=2009-09-24 |website=AskMen}}{{cite web |title=Top 10 worst college mascots |url=http://msn.foxsports.com/cfb/pgStory?contentId=8654338&MSNHPHCP>1=39002#sport=COLLEGE%20FOOTBALL&photo=8652682 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081020032214/http://msn.foxsports.com/cfb/pgStory?contentId=8654338&MSNHPHCP>1=39002#sport=COLLEGE%20FOOTBALL&photo=8652682 |url-status=dead |archive-date=October 20, 2008 |access-date=2009-09-24 |website=Fox Sports}}{{cite web |last=Jordan |first=Andrew |date=2009-04-10 |title=The 10 Worst Mascots of All Time |url=http://bleacherreport.com/articles/154086-10-worst-mascots-of-all-time#page/11 |access-date=2009-09-24 |website=Bleacher Report}} but has also appeared on at least one list of top mascots.{{cite web |last=Hodkowski |first=Ryne |date=2011-10-11 |title=Top 50 Mascots in College Football |url=http://bleacherreport.com/articles/887515-college-football-top-50-mascots-in-college-football/page/5 |access-date=2012-03-19 |website=Bleacher Report |archive-date=December 17, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111217073454/http://bleacherreport.com/articles/887515-college-football-top-50-mascots-in-college-football/page/5 |url-status=live }} The Tree is a member of the Leland Stanford Junior University Marching Band (LSJUMB) and appears at football games, basketball games, and other events where the band performs.{{cite web |title=The Tree |url=http://www.stanford.edu/group/lsjumb/tree.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070307044810/http://www.stanford.edu/group/lsjumb/tree.html |archive-date=2007-03-07 |access-date=2007-04-14 |website=Stanford Band |publisher=Stanford University}}

In 1930, following a unanimous vote by the executive committee for the Associated Students, the athletic department adopted a new mascot (Indian). The Indian symbol and name were dropped by President Richard Lyman in 1972, after objections from Native American students and a vote by the student senate.{{cite web |title=What is the history of Stanford's mascot and nickname? |url=http://www.gostanford.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=30600&ATCLID=208445366 |publisher=Stanford Athletics |date=July 7, 2015 |access-date=July 7, 2015 |archive-date=July 8, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150708093921/http://www.gostanford.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=30600&ATCLID=208445366 |url-status=dead }} Stanford is a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference in most sports, the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation in several other sports, and the America East Conference in field hockey with the participation in the inter-collegiate NCAA's Division I FBS.{{cite press release |url=http://www.americaeast.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_LANG=C&DB_OEM_ID=14000&ATCLID=209720287 |title=Cal, UC Davis, Pacific, Stanford Added As #AEFH Associate Members |publisher=America East Conference |date=October 16, 2014 |access-date=November 17, 2014}} The two official colors of the university are Stanford Cardinal Red and Palo Alto Green.{{Cite web |title=Color – Identity Guide |url=https://identity.stanford.edu/design-elements/color/ |access-date=2024-06-17 |language=en-US |archive-date=January 30, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220130232613/https://identity.stanford.edu/design-elements/color/ |url-status=live }}

From 1930 until 1972, Stanford's sports teams had been known as the Indians and during the period from 1951 to 1972, Prince Lightfoot (portrayed by Timm Williams, a member of the Yurok tribe) was the official mascot. But in 1972, Native American students and staff members successfully lobbied University President Richard Lyman to abolish the "Indian" name along with what they had come to perceive as an offensive and demeaning mascot. Stanford's teams reverted unofficially to the name "Cardinal", the color that had represented the school before 1930.{{cite web |title=Native American History at Stanford |url=http://www.stanford.edu/dept/nacc/timeline.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020306153421/http://www.stanford.edu/dept/nacc/timeline.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=March 6, 2002 |access-date=2007-04-14 |website=Stanford University}}

From 1972 until 1981, Stanford’s official nickname was the Cardinal, but, during this time, there was debate among students and administrators concerning what the mascot and team name should be. A 1972 student referendum on the issue was in favor of restoring the Indian, while a second 1975 referendum was against. The 1975 vote included new suggestions, many alluding to the industry of the school's founder, tycoon Leland Stanford: the Robber Barons, the Sequoias, the Trees, the Cardinals, the Railroaders, the Spikes, and the Huns.

Its traditional sports rival is the University of California, Berkeley. The winner of the annual "Big Game" between the Cal and Cardinal football teams gains custody of the Stanford Axe.Jay Matthews for Newsweek. August 8, 2008 [https://web.archive.org/web/20140316091327/http://www.newsweek.com/12-top-college-rivalries-country-87831 The 12 Top College Rivalries in the Country]

As of May 23, 2024, Stanford has won 136 NCAA team championships, more than any other school. Stanford has won at least one NCAA team championship each academic year for 48 consecutive years, from 1976–77 through to 2023–24.{{cite web |title=NCAA Champs|url=https://gostanford.com/news/2024/5/22/womens-golf-ncaa-champs.aspx |publisher=Stanford University Athletics |access-date=May 22, 2024}} As of January 1, 2022, Stanford athletes have also won 529 NCAA individual championships. No other Division I school is within 100 of Stanford's total.{{cite web |title=Championships Summary |work=NCAA website |url=http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/champs_records_book/Overall.pdf |access-date=April 17, 2022 |archive-date=March 20, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140320185655/http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/champs_records_book/Overall.pdf |url-status=live }} Stanford have won 25 consecutive NACDA Directors' Cups, from 1994–1995 through to 2018–19, awarded annually to the most successful overall college sports program in the nation. 177 Stanford-affiliated athletes have won a total of 296 Summer Olympic medals (150 gold, 79 silver, 67 bronze), including 26 medals at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and 27 medals at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics. In the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics, Stanford-affiliated athletes won 26 medals, more than any other university.{{cite web |url=https://gostanford.com/news/2016/7/1/athletics-stanford-olympic-history.aspx |title=Olympic Medal History |work=Stanford Medicine |access-date=19 December 2022 |archive-date=August 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210815175534/https://gostanford.com/news/2016/7/1/athletics-stanford-olympic-history.aspx |url-status=dead}}

• {{anchor|Hail, Stanford, Hail!}}"Hail, Stanford, Hail!" is the Stanford hymn sometimes sung at ceremonies or adapted by the various university singing groups. It was written in 1892 by mechanical engineering professor Albert W. Smith and his wife, Mary Roberts Smith (in 1896 she earned the first Stanford doctorate in economics and later became associate professor of sociology), but was not officially adopted until after a performance on campus in March 1902 by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.{{cite web |url=https://alumni.stanford.edu/get/page/magazine/article/?article_id=39027 |title=Century at Stanford |author=Karen Bartholomew |publisher=Alumni.stanford.edu |date=March–April 2002 |access-date=August 22, 2014 |archive-date=April 4, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140404160401/https://alumni.stanford.edu/get/page/magazine/article/?article_id=39027 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |url=http://music.stanford.edu/Assets/StanfordHymn.pdf |title=Hail, Stanford Hail! |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202095506/http://music.stanford.edu/Assets/StanfordHymn.pdf |archive-date=February 2, 2014}}
• Big Game: The central football rivalry between Stanford and UC Berkeley. First played in 1892, and for a time played by the universities' rugby teams, it is one of the oldest college rivalries in the United States.
• The Stanford Axe: A trophy earned by the winner of Big Game, exchanged only as necessary. The axe originated in 1899 when Stanford yell leader Billy Erb wielded a lumberman's axe to inspire the team. Stanford lost, and the Axe was stolen by Berkeley students following the game. In 1930, Stanford students staged an elaborate heist to recover the Axe. In 1933, the schools agreed to exchange it as a prize for winning Big Game. As of 2021, a restaurant centrally located on Stanford's campus is named "The Axe and Palm" in reference to the Axe.{{cite web |title=Stanford Stories from the Archives: Student Traditions |date= |publisher=Stanford Libraries |url=https://exhibits.stanford.edu/stanford-stories/feature/student-traditions |access-date=August 20, 2021}}
• Big Game Gaieties: In the week ahead of Big Game, a 90-minute original musical (written, composed, produced, and performed by the students of Ram's Head Theatrical Society) is performed in Memorial Auditorium.{{cite web |title=The History of Big Game Gaieties |work=Ram's Head Theatrical Society |url=http://ramshead.stanford.edu/gaietieshistory.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121215134746/http://ramshead.stanford.edu/gaietieshistory.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 15, 2012 |access-date=October 5, 2013}} The Big Game Gaieties started in 1911 (when the Big Game was rugby) but did not acquire its present name until the 1920s when it also became part of Ram's Head. The tradition was dormant from 1968 until revived in 1976 and has run ever since.
• Full Moon on the Quad: An annual event at Main Quad, where students gather to kiss one another starting at midnight. Typically organized by the junior class cabinet, the festivities include live entertainment, such as music and dance performances.{{cite news |title=Top 10: Traditional Events |date=January 17, 2014 |author= |newspaper=The Stanford Daily |url=https://www.stanforddaily.com/2014/01/17/top-10-traditional-events/ |access-date=August 20, 2021 |archive-date=August 20, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210820210158/https://www.stanforddaily.com/2014/01/17/top-10-traditional-events/ |url-status=live }}
• The Stanford Marriage Pact: An annual matchmaking event where thousands of students complete a questionnaire about their values and are subsequently matched with the best person for them to make a "marriage pact" with.{{cite podcast |last1=Mayyasi |first1=Alex |last2=Gonzalez |first2=Sarah |title=The Marriage Pact |website=NPR |publisher=Planet Money |date=March 5, 2021 |url=https://www.npr.org/2021/03/02/972943944/the-marriage-pact |access-date=August 18, 2021 |archive-date=August 18, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210818215915/https://www.npr.org/2021/03/02/972943944/the-marriage-pact |url-status=live }}{{cite news |last=Garcia |first=Sarah |title=The Kids Are Making 'Marriage Pacts' to Distract Themselves From Doom |date=May 19, 2021 |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/19/style/marriage-pact-college-stanford.html |access-date=August 18, 2021 |archive-date=July 20, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210720171649/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/19/style/marriage-pact-college-stanford.html |url-status=live }}{{cite news |last=Ramgopal |first=Kit |title=Inside the Stanford Marriage Pact |date=February 19, 2019 |newspaper=The Stanford Daily |url=https://www.stanforddaily.com/2019/02/19/inside-the-stanford-marriage-pact/ |access-date=August 18, 2021}}{{cite news |last=Sass |first=Roxy |title=Ask Roxy Sass: Marriage Pact edition |date=November 22, 2020 |newspaper=The Stanford Daily |url=https://www.stanforddaily.com/2020/11/22/ask-roxy-sass-marriage-pact-edition/ |access-date=August 18, 2021 |archive-date=August 18, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210818220621/https://www.stanforddaily.com/2020/11/22/ask-roxy-sass-marriage-pact-edition/ |url-status=live }}
• Fountain Hopping: At any time of year, students tour Stanford's main campus fountains to dip their feet or swim in some of the university's 25 fountains.{{cite news |title=A fountain hopper's guide to Stanford |last=Coca |first=Richard |date=April 23, 2019 |newspaper=The Stanford Daily |url=https://www.stanforddaily.com/2019/04/23/a-fountain-hoppers-guide-to-stanford/ |access-date=August 22, 2021}}{{cite web |title=Student Life: Traditions |date=February 1, 2021 |publisher=Stanford Facts |url=https://facts.stanford.edu/campuslife/ |access-date=August 20, 2021}}
• Mausoleum Party: An annual Halloween party at the Stanford Mausoleum, the final resting place of Leland Stanford Jr. and his parents. A 20-year tradition, the Mausoleum party was on hiatus from 2002 to 2005 due to a lack of funding, but was revived in 2006.{{cite web |url=http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/2007/janfeb/red/mausoleum.html |title=A Party to Die For |date=January–February 2007 |work=Stanford Magazine |publisher=Stanford Alumni Association |last=Chien |first=Jennifer |access-date=November 3, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101103192446/http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/2007/janfeb/red/mausoleum.html |archive-date=November 3, 2010 |url-status=dead}} In 2008, it was hosted in Old Union rather than at the actual Mausoleum, because rain prohibited generators from being rented.{{cite news |last1=Banerjee |first1=Devin |title=Mausoleum Party is a go: Regardless of rain, the party set for Old Union |url=http://stanforddailyarchive.com/cgi-bin/stanford?a=d&d=stanford20081031-01.2.9 |access-date=March 19, 2016 |work=Stanford Daily |issue=31 |volume=234 |page=3 |date=October 31, 2008}} In 2009, after fundraising efforts by the Junior Class Presidents and the ASSU Executive, the event was able to return to the Mausoleum despite facing budget cuts earlier in the year.{{cite news |url=http://stanforddailyarchive.com/cgi-bin/stanford?a=d&d=stanford20091007-01.2.4 |title=Mausoleum: next to die? |work=Stanford Daily |last=Feliciano |first=Cassandra |date=October 7, 2009 |page=1 |volume=236 |issue=14 |access-date=March 18, 2016 |archive-date=August 22, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160822004642/http://stanforddailyarchive.com/cgi-bin/stanford?a=d&d=stanford20091007-01.2.4 |url-status=live }}
• Wacky Walk: At commencement, graduates forgo a more traditional entrance and instead stride into Stanford Stadium in a large procession wearing wacky costumes.{{cite web |title=How do you explain Stanford's Wacky Walk? |date=June 8, 2018 |publisher=Stanford News Service |url=https://news.stanford.edu/2018/06/08/wacky-walk/ |access-date=August 20, 2021}}
• Steam Tunneling: Stanford has a network of underground brick-lined tunnels that conduct central heating to more than 200 buildings via steam pipes. Students sometimes navigate the corridors, rooms, and locked gates, carrying flashlights and water bottles.{{cite news |title=Pipe Dreams |last=Baughman |first=Shawnee |date=April 12, 2010 |newspaper=The Stanford Daily |url=https://www.stanforddaily.com/2010/04/12/pipedreams/ |access-date=August 20, 2021 |archive-date=August 20, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210820212457/https://www.stanforddaily.com/2010/04/12/pipedreams/ |url-status=live }} Stanford Magazine named steam tunneling one of the "101 things you must do" before graduating from the Farm in 2000.{{cite web |title=How Many Have You Done? |author= |date=September–October 2000 |magazine=Stanford Magazine |url=https://stanfordmag.org/contents/how-many-have-you-done |access-date=August 20, 2021}}
• Band Run: An annual festivity at the beginning of the school year, where the band picks up freshmen from dorms across campus while stopping to perform at each location, culminating in a finale performance at Main Quad.
• Viennese Ball: A formal ball with waltzes that was initially started in the 1970s by students returning from the now-closed (since 1987) Stanford in Vienna overseas program. It is now open to all students.{{cite news |title=Strictly Ballroom |first=Theresa |last=Johnston |work=Stanford Magazine |publisher=Stanford Alumni Association |date=May 2002 |url=http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/2002/mayjun/features/vienneseball.html |access-date=August 1, 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100221113650/http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/2002/mayjun/features/vienneseball.html |archive-date=February 21, 2010 |url-status=dead}}
• The long-unofficial motto of Stanford, selected by President Jordan, is "Die Luft der Freiheit weht."{{cite web |title=Stanford Facts: The Founding of the University |url=http://facts.stanford.edu/about/ |publisher=Stanford University |date=2014 |access-date=December 11, 2014 |archive-date=December 13, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141213020952/http://facts.stanford.edu/about/ |url-status=live }} Translated from the German language, this quotation from Ulrich von Hutten means, "The wind of freedom blows." The motto was controversial during World War I, when anything in German was suspect; at that time the university disavowed that this motto was official. It was made official by way of incorporation into an official seal by the board of trustees in December 2002.{{cite web |url=https://exhibits.stanford.edu/becoming-stanford/feature/the-university-seal |title=The University Seal |website=Stanford Libraries |date=May 31, 2016 |access-date=November 17, 2021 |archive-date=December 4, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221204061110/https://exhibits.stanford.edu/becoming-stanford/feature/the-university-seal |url-status=live }}
• Degree of Uncommon Man/Uncommon Woman: Stanford does not award honorary degrees,{{cite web |url=http://registrar.stanford.edu/bulletin/4913.htm |title=Stanford Bulletin: Conferral of Degrees |access-date=September 19, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111228213935/http://registrar.stanford.edu/bulletin/4913.htm |archive-date=December 28, 2011}}{{cite web |url=https://web.stanford.edu/dept/registrar/bulletin0809/4913.htm |title=Stanford Bulletin 2008/2009: Conferral of Degrees |website=Web.stanford.edu |access-date=September 19, 2014}} but in 1953 the "degree of Uncommon Man/Uncommon Woman" was created by Stanford Associates, part of the Stanford alumni organization, to recognize alumni who give rare and extraordinary service to the university. It is awarded not at prescribed intervals, but instead only when the president of the university deems it appropriate to recognize extraordinary service. Recipients include Herbert Hoover, Bill Hewlett, Dave Packard, Lucile Packard, and John Gardner.{{cite web |title=Degree of Uncommon Man/Woman |publisher=Stanford Alumni Association |url=https://associates.alumni.stanford.edu/awards/degree-uncommon-manwoman |access-date=August 20, 2021 |archive-date=August 20, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210820202440/https://associates.alumni.stanford.edu/awards/degree-uncommon-manwoman |url-status=dead}}
• Former campus traditions include the Big Game bonfire on Lake Lagunita (a seasonal lake usually dry in the fall), which was formally ended in 1997 because of the presence of endangered salamanders in the lake bed.Stanford Press Release, October 1, 1997 [http://news.stanford.edu/pr/97/971001bonfire.html Big Game Bonfire is a tradition of the past] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160612105556/http://news.stanford.edu/pr/97/971001bonfire.html |date=June 12, 2016 }}

Students and staff at Stanford are of many different religions. The Stanford Office for Religious Life's mission is "to guide, nurture and enhance spiritual, religious and ethical life within the Stanford University community" by promoting enriching dialogue, meaningful ritual, and enduring friendships among people of all religious backgrounds. It is headed by a dean with the assistance of a senior associate dean and an associate dean.

Stanford Memorial Church, in the center of campus, has a Sunday University Public Worship service (UPW) usually in the "Protestant Ecumenical Christian" tradition where the Memorial Church Choir sings and a sermon is preached usually by one of the Stanford deans for Religious Life. UPW sometimes has multifaith services. In addition, the church is used by the Catholic community and the other Christian denominations at Stanford. Weddings happen most Saturdays and the university has allowed blessings of same-gender relationships and legal weddings.{{cite web |title=University Public Worship |work=Office for Religious Life |publisher=Stanford University |url=https://web.stanford.edu/group/religiouslife/cgi-bin/wordpress/memorial-church/university-public-worship/ |access-date=October 5, 2013 |archive-date=July 15, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140715011708/http://web.stanford.edu/group/religiouslife/cgi-bin/wordpress/memorial-church/university-public-worship/ |url-status=dead}}

In addition to the church, the Office for Religious Life has a Center for Inter-Religious Community, Learning, and Experiences (CIRCLE) on the third floor of Old Union. It offers a common room, an interfaith sanctuary, a seminar room, a student lounge area, and a reading room, as well as offices housing a number of Stanford Associated Religions (SAR) member groups and the Senior Associate Dean and Associate Dean for Religious Life. Most though not all religious student groups belong to SAR. The SAR directory includes organizations that serve atheist, Bahá’í, Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Muslim, Jewish, and Sikh groups, though these groups vary year by year.{{cite web |title=Stanford Associated Religions |work=Office for Religious Life |publisher=Stanford University |url=https://web.stanford.edu/group/religiouslife/cgi-bin/wordpress/students/sar/ |access-date=October 5, 2013 |archive-date=July 5, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140705083841/http://web.stanford.edu/group/religiouslife/cgi-bin/wordpress/students/sar/ |url-status=dead}} The Windhover Contemplation Center was dedicated in October 2014, and was intended to provide spiritual sanctuary for students and staff in the midst of their course and work schedules; the center displays the "Windhover" paintings by Nathan Oliveira, the late Stanford professor and artist.{{cite web |last=Xu |first=Victor |title=Windhover contemplative center to finish by early summer |work=The Stanford Daily |date=May 8, 2014 |url=http://www.stanforddaily.com/2014/05/08/windhover-contemplative-center-to-finish-by-early-summer/ |access-date=September 30, 2014}} Some religions have a larger and more formal presence on campus in addition to the student groups; these include the Catholic and Hillel communities at Stanford.{{cite web |title=Catholic Community at Stanford: About us |url=http://catholic.stanford.edu/about/welcome |access-date=December 11, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110913010012/http://catholic.stanford.edu/about/welcome |archive-date=September 13, 2011 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all}} The Catholic Community is a personal parish in the Diocese of San Jose and staffed by the Dominicans and lay leaders.{{cite web |title=Hillel at Stanford: About |url=http://hillel.stanford.edu/about/ |access-date=October 5, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131009065021/http://hillel.stanford.edu/about/ |archive-date=October 9, 2013 |df=mdy-all}}

Fraternities and sororities have been active on the Stanford campus since 1891 when the university first opened. In 1944, University President Donald Tresidder banned all Stanford sororities due to extreme competition.{{cite web |url=http://stanford.kappa.org/chapter-history |title=Kappa Kappa Gamma – Beta Eta Deuteron History |publisher=kappakappagamma.org |date= |access-date=May 11, 2021}} However, following Title IX, the Board of Trustees lifted the 33-year ban on sororities in 1977.{{cite web |url=http://cgi.stanford.edu/group/chiomega/cgi-bin/history.php |title=Chi Omega – Nu Alpha – History |website=Cgi.stanford.edu |access-date=September 19, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130120104456/http://cgi.stanford.edu/group/chiomega/cgi-bin/history.php |archive-date=January 20, 2013}} Students are not permitted to join a fraternity or sorority until spring quarter of their freshman year.{{cite web |title=Frequently Asked Questions |url=https://resx.stanford.edu/news-values/faq/recruitment-and-intake/frequently-asked |website=Stanford Residential Education |publisher=Stanford University |access-date=May 12, 2021}}{{Dead link|date=June 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Stanford has thirty-one Greek organizations, including fourteen sororities and sixteen fraternities. Nine of the Greek organizations were housed (eight in University-owned houses and one, Sigma Chi, in their own house, although the land is owned by the university).{{cite news |last1=Soong-Shiong |first1=Nika |title=Life at Summer Chi |url=http://www.stanforddaily.com/2013/08/23/life-at-summer-chi/ |access-date=June 17, 2016 |work=Stanford Daily |date=August 23, 2013}} Five chapters were members of the African American Fraternal and Sororal Association, eleven chapters were members of the Interfraternity Council, seven chapters belonged to the Intersorority Council, and six chapters belonged to the Multicultural Greek Council.{{cite web |url=https://resed.stanford.edu/residences/fsl-organizations |title=FSL Organizations |publisher=Stanford University |access-date=June 16, 2016 |archive-date=June 11, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160611030246/https://resed.stanford.edu/residences/fsl-organizations |url-status=dead}}

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Stanford has more than 600 student organizations.{{cite web |url=https://admission.stanford.edu/student/communities/index.html |title=Campus Communities & Service Opportunities: Student Organizations |publisher=Stanford University |access-date=May 10, 2020}} Groups are often, though not always, partially funded by the university via allocations directed by the student government organization, the ASSU. These funds include "special fees," which are decided by a Spring Quarter vote by the student body. Groups span athletics and recreation, careers/pre-professional, community service, ethnic/cultural, fraternities and sororities, health and counseling, media and publications, the arts, political and social awareness, and religious and philosophical organizations. In contrast to many other selective universities, Stanford policy mandates that all recognized student clubs be "broadly open" for all interested students to join.{{Cite web |last=Liu |first=Dustin |date=February 27, 2019 |title=GUEST ROOM {{!}} The Problem With Selective Organizations |url=https://cornellsun.com/2019/02/27/guest-room-the-problem-with-selective-organizations/ |access-date=October 10, 2021 |website=The Cornell Daily Sun |language=en-US |url-status=live |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20211010061141/https://cornellsun.com/2019/02/27/guest-room-the-problem-with-selective-organizations/ |archive-date=October 10, 2021 }}{{Cite web |last=Long |first=Evelyn |date=January 17, 2020 |title=Thank you for your interest: The problem with selective clubs. |url=http://northbynorthwestern.com/thank-you-for-your-interest-the-problem-with-selective-clubs/ |access-date=October 10, 2021 |website=North by Northwestern |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Membership |url=https://ose.stanford.edu/policies/student-organization-policies/membership |access-date=October 10, 2021 |website=Office of Student Engagement |archive-date=October 10, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211010061150/https://ose.stanford.edu/policies/student-organization-policies/membership |url-status=dead}}{{Cite web |title=Northwestern joins Harvard in urging exclusive clubs to open up their membership |url=https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/05/24/northwestern-joins-harvard-urging-exclusive-clubs-open-their-membership |access-date=October 10, 2021 |website=Inside Higher Ed |first1=Jake |last1=New |date=May 24, 2016 |language=en}}

The Stanford Daily is a student-run daily newspaper and has been published since the university was founded in 1892.{{cite web |title=About |url=http://www.stanforddaily.com/about/ |website=Stanford Daily |access-date=June 12, 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160612172753/http://www.stanforddaily.com/about/ |archive-date=June 12, 2016 }} The student-run radio station, KZSU Stanford 90.1 FM, features freeform music programming, sports commentary, and news segments; it started in 1947 as an AM radio station.{{cite web |title=About KZSU |website=KZSU Stanford 90.1 FM |publisher=Stanford University |url=http://kzsu.stanford.edu/stationinfo/ |access-date=October 19, 2013}} The Stanford Review is a conservative student newspaper founded in 1987.{{cite web |last1=Wallace |first1=Lisa |last2=Atallah |first2=Alex |title=A Brief and Non-Exhaustive History of the Stanford Review |url=http://stanfordreview.org/article/a-brief-and-non-exhaustive-history-of-the-stanford-review/ |website=Stanford Review |access-date=June 12, 2016 |date=February 9, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160611193736/http://stanfordreview.org/article/a-brief-and-non-exhaustive-history-of-the-stanford-review/ |archive-date=June 11, 2016}} The Fountain Hopper (FoHo) is a financially independent, anonymous student-run campus rag publication, notable for having broken the Brock Turner story.{{Cite web |title=Stanford, the swimmer and Yik Yak: can talk of campus rape go beyond secrets? |url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/feb/08/stanford-swimmer-yik-yak-campus-rape |last1=Glenza |first1=Jessica |last2=Carroll |first2=Rory |date=February 8, 2015 |website=The Guardian |language=en |access-date=May 10, 2020}} Stanford hosts numerous environmental and sustainability-oriented student groups, including Students for a Sustainable Stanford, Students for Environmental and Racial Justice, and Stanford Energy Club.{{Cite web |title=Student Groups |url=https://sustainable.stanford.edu/be-cardinal-green/students/student-groups |access-date=February 27, 2022 |website=Sustainable Stanford – Stanford University |language=en |archive-date=February 27, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220227232327/https://sustainable.stanford.edu/be-cardinal-green/students/student-groups |url-status=dead}} Stanford is a member of the Ivy Plus Sustainability Consortium, through which it has committed to best-practice sharing and the ongoing exchange of campus sustainability solutions along with other member institutions.name="Leadership Through Partnership">{{cite web|title=Leadership Through Partnership|url=https://sustainability.yale.edu/priorities-progress/leadership/leadership-through-partnership|access-date=November 18, 2023|publisher=Yale Sustainability}}

Stanford is also home to a large number of pre-professional student organizations, organized around missions from startup incubation to paid consulting. The Business Association of Stanford Entrepreneurial Students (BASES) is one of the largest professional organizations in Silicon Valley, with over 5,000 members.{{cite web |title=A new student's guide to Stanford's entrepreneurial ecosystem, part 2 |url=https://www.stanforddaily.com/2021/07/04/a-new-students-guide-to-stanfords-entrepreneurial-ecosystem-part-2/#:~:text=The%20largest%20and%20oldest%20of%20which%20is%20BASES,5%2C000%20general%20members%20on%20their%20weekly%20mailing%20list. |website=The Stanford Daily |access-date=October 6, 2021 |date=July 4, 2021}} Its goal is to support the next generation of entrepreneurs.{{cite web |title=Our Team |url=https://bases.stanford.edu/team |website=BASES: Business Association of Stanford Entrepreneurial Students |access-date=October 6, 2021 |archive-date=October 6, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211006160127/https://bases.stanford.edu/team |url-status=dead}} StartX is a non-profit startup accelerator for student and faculty-led startups.{{cite web |url=https://startx.com/about |title=About StartX |work=StartX}} It is staffed primarily by students.{{cite web |title=StartX Demo Day attracts Stanford-connected start-ups, Silicon Valley investors |url=https://www.stanforddaily.com/2013/02/08/startx-demo-day-attracts-stanford-connected-start-ups-silicon-valley-investors/ |website=The Stanford Daily |access-date=October 6, 2021 |date=February 8, 2013}} Stanford Women In Business (SWIB) is an on-campus business organization, aimed at helping Stanford women find paths to success in the generally male-dominated technology industry.{{cite news |last=Wallace |first=Elizabeth |title=Stanford Women in Business hosts events to boost entrepreneurship |newspaper=The Stanford Daily |date=May 25, 2015 |url=https://www.stanforddaily.com/2015/05/25/stanford-women-in-business-hosts-events-to-boost-entrepreneurship/ |access-date=May 10, 2020}} Stanford Marketing is a student group that provides students hands-on training through research and strategy consulting projects with Fortune 500 clients, as well as workshops led by people from industry and professors in the Stanford Graduate School of Business.{{cite web |url=http://www.stanfordmarketing.org/ |title=Stanford Marketing |access-date=February 7, 2015}}{{cite web |url=http://www.stanfordmarketing.org/recruitment/ |title=Become An Associate |access-date=February 10, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150209070557/http://www.stanfordmarketing.org/recruitment/ |archive-date=February 9, 2015}} Stanford Finance provides mentoring and internships for students who want to enter a career in finance. Stanford Pre Business Association is intended to build connections among industry, alumni, and student communities.{{cite web |title=Planning for Business School {{!}} Academic Advising |url=https://advising.stanford.edu/beyond-undergrad/planning-business-school |website=advising.stanford.edu |access-date=October 6, 2021 |language=en}}

Stanford is also home to several academic groups focused on government and politics, including [https://sig.stanford.edu/ Stanford in Government] and [https://www.stanfordwomeninpolitics.com/ Stanford Women in Politics]. The [https://sslap.stanford.edu/ Stanford Society for Latin American Politics] is Stanford's first student organization focused on the region's political, economic, and social developments, working to increase the representation and study of Latin America on campus. Former guest speakers include José Mujica and Gustavo Petro.{{cite web |title="About Us" |url=https://sslap.stanford.edu/about-us |website=Stanford Society for Latin American Politics |publisher=Stanford University |access-date=24 February 2023}} Other groups include:

• The Stanford Axe Committee is the official guardian of the Stanford Axe and the rest of the time assists the Stanford Band as a supplementary spirit group. It has existed since 1982.{{cite web |title=Stanford Axe Committee: About us |url=https://web.stanford.edu/group/axecomm/cgi-bin/wordpress/?page_id=67 |access-date=October 5, 2013 |archive-date=October 17, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141017115343/http://web.stanford.edu/group/axecomm/cgi-bin/wordpress/?page_id=67 |url-status=dead}}
• Stanford American Indian Organization (SAIO) which hosts the annual Stanford Powwow started in 1971. This is the largest student-run event on campus and the largest student-run powwow in the country.{{cite web |title=Founding of SAIO {{!}} Native American Cultural Center |url=https://nacc.stanford.edu/about-nacc/history-timelines/founding-saio |website=nacc.stanford.edu |access-date=October 30, 2019}}{{cite news |last1=Sanchez |first1=Tatiana |title=Stanford Powwow celebrates Native American history, culture |url=https://www.mercurynews.com/2017/05/13/stanford-powwow-celebrates-native-american-history-culture/ |access-date=October 30, 2019 |work=The Mercury News |date=May 13, 2017}}
• The Stanford Improvisors (SImps for short) teach and perform improvisational theatre on campus and in the surrounding community.{{cite web |title=The Stanford Improvisors |url=https://www.stanfordimprovisors.com/ |access-date=March 16, 2021 |website=stanfordimprovisors.com}} In 2014 the group finished second in the Golden Gate Regional College Improv tournament,{{cite web |url=http://sfimprovfestival.com/2014/01/31/tall-grande-venti-takes-top-bay-college-title-to-rep-sf-in-nationals/ |title=Tall, Grande, Venti Takes Top Bay College Title to Rep SF in Nationals! |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150702150359/http://sfimprovfestival.com/2014/01/31/tall-grande-venti-takes-top-bay-college-title-to-rep-sf-in-nationals/ |archive-date=July 2, 2015 |df=mdy-all}} and they have since been invited twice to perform at the annual San Francisco Improv Festival.{{cite web |url=http://sfimprovfestival.com/performers2014/simps/ |title=San Francisco Improv Festival |website=Sfimprovfestival.com |access-date=November 15, 2017 |archive-date=September 8, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170908062218/http://sfimprovfestival.com/performers2014/simps/ |url-status=dead}}
• Asha for Education is a national student group founded in 1991. It focuses mainly on education in India and supporting nonprofit organizations that work mainly in the education sector. Asha's Stanford chapter organizes events like Holi as well as lectures by prominent leaders from India on the university campus.{{cite web |url=http://stanford.ashanet.org/blog/2015/11/asha-dandiya-featured-in-india-abroad-magazine/ |title=Asha Dandiya featured in India Abroad Magazine |publisher=Asha Stanford |date=November 21, 2015}}{{cite web |url=http://stanford.ashanet.org/blog/2015/10/adhik-kadams-100-mile-bike-ride-for-100-donors/ |title=Adhik Kadam's 100-mile bike ride for 100 donors |publisher=Asha Stanford |date=October 5, 2015}}{{cite web |url=https://allevents.in/circle/asha-stanford-welcome-dinner-with-adhik-kadam-and-the-borderless-world-foundation/1696538670565831 |title=Asha Stanford Welcome Dinner: with Adhik Kadam and the Borderless World Foundation |website=Allevents.in |access-date=December 24, 2016 |archive-date=December 24, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161224234229/https://allevents.in/circle/asha-stanford-welcome-dinner-with-adhik-kadam-and-the-borderless-world-foundation/1696538670565831 |url-status=dead}}

Stanford's Department of Public Safety is responsible for law enforcement and safety on the main campus. Its deputy sheriffs are peace officers by arrangement with the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office.{{cite web |title=Employment Opportunities |url=http://www.stanford.edu/group/SUDPS/employment.shtml |website=Stanford University Department of Public Safety |access-date=June 11, 2016}} The department is also responsible for publishing an annual crime report covering the previous three years as required by the Clery Act.{{cite web |title=Safety & Security Results: Crime Statistics |url=https://web.stanford.edu/group/SUDPS/safety-report/stats-toc.shtml |website=Stanford University Department of Public Safety |access-date=June 11, 2016 |archive-date=June 11, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160611051350/http://web.stanford.edu/group/SUDPS/safety-report/stats-toc.shtml |url-status=dead}} Fire protection has been provided by contract with the Palo Alto Fire Department since 1976.{{cite news |last1=Sheyner |first1=Gennady |title=Palo Alto, Stanford clash over fire services |url=http://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2015/10/22/palo-alto-stanford-clash-over-fire-services |access-date=June 11, 2016 |publisher=Palo Alto Online |date=October 22, 2015}} Murder is rare on the campus, although a few cases have been notorious, including the 1974 murder of Arlis Perry in Stanford Memorial Church, which was not solved until 2018.{{Cite web |url=https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2018/06/28/suspect-in-grisly-stanford-memorial-church-murder-kills-self |title=Sheriff: Grisly 1974 Stanford murder solved |author=Staff |date=June 29, 2018 |website=PaloAltoOnline.com |access-date=November 16, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180913153323/https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2018/06/28/suspect-in-grisly-stanford-memorial-church-murder-kills-self |archive-date=September 13, 2018 |url-status=live}} Also infamous was Theodore Streleski's murder of his faculty advisor in 1978.{{cite news |last1=Xu |first1=Victor |title=A history of murder at Stanford |url=http://www.stanforddaily.com/2014/10/10/a-history-of-murder-at-stanford/ |access-date=June 12, 2016 |work=Stanford Daily |date=October 10, 2014}}

In 2014, Stanford was the tenth highest in the nation in "total of reports of rape" on their main campus, with 26 reports of rape.{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2016/06/07/these-colleges-have-the-most-reports-of-rape/ |title=These colleges have the most reports of rape |first=Nick |last=Anderson |date=June 7, 2016 |newspaper=The Washington Post}} In Stanford's 2015 Campus Climate Survey, 4.7 percent of female undergraduates reported experiencing sexual assault as defined by the university, and 32.9 percent reported experiencing sexual misconduct.{{Cite news |url=http://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2015/10/01/one-third-of-stanford-women-experience-sexual-misconduct-survey-finds |title=One-third of Stanford women experience sexual misconduct, survey finds |last=Kadvany |first=Elena |date=October 1, 2015 |work=Palo Alto Online |access-date=June 15, 2016}} According to the survey, 85% of perpetrators of misconduct were Stanford students and 80% were men. Perpetrators of sexual misconduct were frequently aided by alcohol or drugs, according to the survey: "Nearly three-fourths of the students whose responses were categorized as sexual assault indicated that the act was accomplished by a person or persons taking advantage of them when they were drunk or high, according to the survey. Close to 70 percent of students who reported an experience of sexual misconduct involving nonconsensual penetration and/or oral sex indicated the same."

Associated Students of Stanford and student and alumni activists with the anti-rape group Stand with Leah criticized the survey methodology for downgrading incidents involving alcohol if students did not check two separate boxes indicating they were both intoxicated and incapacity while sexually assaulted. Reporting on the Brock Turner rape case, a reporter from The Washington Post analyzed campus rape reports submitted by universities to the U.S. Department of Education, and found that Stanford was one of the top ten universities in campus rapes in 2014, with 26 reported that year, but when analyzed by rapes per 1000 students, Stanford was not among the top ten.

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On the night of January 17–18, 2015, 22-year-old Chanel Miller, who was visiting the campus to attend a party at the fraternity Kappa Alpha Order, was sexually assaulted by Brock Turner, a nineteen-year-old freshman student-athlete from Ohio. Two Stanford graduate students witnessed the attack and intervened; when Turner attempted to flee the two held him down on the ground until police arrived.Liam Stack for The New York Times. June 6, 2016 [https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/07/us/outrage-in-stanford-rape-case-over-dueling-statements-of-victim-and-attackers-father.html Light Sentence for Brock Turner in Stanford Rape Case Draws Outrage] Stanford immediately referred the case to prosecutors and offered Miller counseling, and within two weeks had barred Turner from campus after conducting an investigation.Ashley Fantz for CNN June 7, 2016 [http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/06/us/sexual-assault-brock-turner-stanford/ Outrage over 6-month sentence for Brock Turner in Stanford rape case] Turner was convicted on three felony charges in March 2016 and in June 2016 he received a jail sentence of six months and was declared a sex offender, requiring him to register as such for the rest of his life; prosecutors had sought a six-year prison sentence out of the maximum 14 years that was possible.{{Cite web | url=https://www.mercurynews.com/peninsula/ci_29970782/palo-alto-former-stanford-swimmer-gets-6-months| title=Stanford sex assault: Brock Turner gets 6 months in jail| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160603152038/https://www.mercurynews.com/peninsula/ci_29970782/palo-alto-former-stanford-swimmer-gets-6-months| archive-date=2016-06-03 | newspaper=Mercurynews.com| accessdate=2023-10-18}} The case and the relatively lenient sentence drew nationwide attention.{{cite news |url=http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2016/06/06/stanford-sexual-assault-victim-statement-viral/ |title=Stanford Sex Assault Victim's Story Draws Worldwide Reaction |last=Fehely |first=Devin |date=June 6, 2016 |work=CBS SF Bay Area |access-date=June 10, 2016}} Two years later, the judge in the case, Stanford graduate Aaron Persky, was recalled by the voters.{{cite news |url=https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/06/us/judge-aaron-persky-recall-results-brock-turner/index.html |title=Voters oust judge who gave Brock Turner 6 months for sex assault |date=June 6, 2018 |work=CNN |access-date=September 2, 2018}}{{cite book |last1=Kimmel |first1=Michael |title=Guyland. The perilous world where boys become men. |date=2018 |publisher=HarperCollins |location=New York |isbn=9780062885739 |pages=1–2}}

{{see also|Joe Lonsdale#Sexual assault allegations}}

In February 2015, Elise Clougherty filed a sexual assault and harassment lawsuit against venture capitalist Joe Lonsdale.Katie Benner for Bloomberg News. February 2, 2015 [https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2015-02-02/clougherty-s-sexual-assault-suit-against-formation-8-s-lonsdale Benner on Tech: Parsing a Sexual Assault Suit]Emily Bazelon for The New York Times. February 11, 2015 [https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/15/magazine/the-stanford-undergraduate-and-the-mentor.html The Stanford Undergraduate and the Mentor] Lonsdale and Clougherty entered into a relationship in the spring of 2012 when she was a junior and he was her mentor in a Stanford entrepreneurship course. By the spring of 2013 Clougherty had broken off the relationship and filed charges at Stanford that Lonsdale had broken the Stanford policy against consensual relationships between students and faculty and that he had sexually assaulted and harassed her, which resulted in Lonsdale being banned from Stanford for 10 years. Lonsdale challenged Stanford's finding that he had sexually assaulted and harassed her and Stanford rescinded that finding and the campus ban in the fall of 2015.Emily Bazelon for The New York Times. November 4, 2015 [https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/04/magazine/the-lessons-of-stanfords-sex-assault-case-reversal.html The Lessons of Stanford's Sex-Assault-Case Reversal] Clougherty withdrew her suit that fall as well.{{cite news |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-privateequity-lonsdale-lawsuit-idUSKCN0SR23Q20151102?feedType=RSS&feedName=technologyNews |title=Woman drops sex assault case against U.S. venture capitalist |newspaper=Reuters |date=November 2, 2015 |last1=McBride |first1=Dan Levine}}

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Stanford's current community of scholars includes:

• 2 ACL Lifetime Achievement Award winners;{{cite web |url=http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/index.php? |title=ACL Lifetime Achievement Award Recipients |access-date=August 1, 2024}}
• 3 Presidential Medal of Freedom winners;{{cite news |first=Dawn |last=Levy |title=Edward Teller wins Presidential Medal of Freedom |url=http://news-service.stanford.edu/pr/03/teller723.html |date=July 22, 2003 |access-date=November 17, 2008 |quote=Teller, 95, is the third Stanford scholar to be awarded a Presidential Medal of Freedom. The others are Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman (1988) and former Secretary of State George Shultz (1989). |archive-date=June 14, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070614040209/http://news-service.stanford.edu/pr/03/teller723.html |url-status=dead}}{{cite news |last1=Schad |first1=Tom |title=Katie Ledecky, Jim Thorpe among 2024 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients by Joe Biden |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/olympics/2024/05/03/katie-ledecky-jim-thorpe-awarded-presidential-medal-of-freedom/73549309007/ |work=USA Today |date=May 3, 2024}}
• 3 recipients of the National Medal of Technology;
• 4 Pulitzer Prize winners;
• 6 recipients of the National Humanities Medal;
• 6 Turing Award winners;
• 7 Wolf Foundation Prize winners;
• 10 recipients of the National Medal of Science;
• 14 AAAI fellows;{{cite web |url=http://www.aaai.org/Awards/fellows-list.php |title=Elected AAAI Fellows |access-date=February 9, 2011}}
• 22 Nobel Prize laureates (as of 2022, 58 affiliates in total);{{cite web |title=Alumni: Stanford University Facts |url=http://facts.stanford.edu/alumni/ |publisher=Stanford University |access-date=December 4, 2015}}{{cite web |title=Stanford Nobel Laureates |url=http://news.stanford.edu/nobel/ |publisher=Stanford University |access-date=May 17, 2017}}{{cite web |title=Alvin E. Roth – Biographical |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economic-sciences/laureates/2012/roth-bio.html |publisher=Nobel Foundation |access-date=May 30, 2017}}{{cite web |title=Richard E. Taylor – Biographical |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1990/taylor-bio.html |publisher=Nobel Foundation |access-date=May 30, 2017}}{{cite web |title=Press Release (Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2006) |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2006/press.html |publisher=Nobel Foundation |access-date=May 30, 2017}}
• 33 MacArthur Fellows;
• 47 members of American Philosophical Society;
• 56 fellows of the American Physics Society (since 1995);{{cite news |url=http://aps.org/programs/honors/fellowships/archive-all.cfm |title=APS Fellows Archive |access-date=February 9, 2011}}
• 90 members of National Academy of Medicine;
• 113 members of National Academy of Engineering;
• 174 members of the National Academy of Sciences;
• 303 members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Stanford's current and former faculty includes 58 Nobel laureates, as well as 29 winners of the Turing Award, the so-called "Nobel Prize in computer science", comprising one-third of the awards given in its 44-year history. The university also has 27 ACM Fellows and is affiliated with four Gödel Prize winners, four Knuth Prize recipients, ten IJCAI Computers and Thought Award winners, and fifteen Grace Murray Hopper Award winners for their work in the foundations of computer science. Stanford alumni have started many companies and, according to Forbes, Stanford has produced the second highest number of billionaires of all universities.{{cite news |url=https://www.forbes.com/2009/08/02/billionaire-study-harvard-stanford-business-billionaires-colleges-09-wealth.html |title=Billionaire University |access-date=April 15, 2011 |work=Forbes |first=Marie |last=Thibault |date=August 5, 2009}}{{cite magazine |url=https://www.forbes.com/asap/1997/0825/059.html |title=What MIT Learned from Stanford |magazine=Forbes |date=August 25, 1997 |access-date=April 16, 2014 |last=Pfeiffer |first=Eric W.}}{{cite web |url=https://web.stanford.edu/group/wellspring/index.html |title=Stanford Entrepreneurs |publisher=Stanford University |access-date=March 11, 2011 |archive-date=July 15, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140715223508/http://web.stanford.edu/group/wellspring/index.html |url-status=dead}} By 2022, 128 Stanford students or alumni have also been named Rhodes Scholars.{{cite web |title=Undergraduate Profile: Stanford University Facts |url=http://facts.stanford.edu/academics/undergraduate-facts |access-date=February 10, 2022 |website=Stanford Facts at a Glance |publisher=Stanford Office of University Communications |language=en}}

File:Herbert Hoover.jpg|Herbert Hoover (BS 1895), President of the United States, founder of Hoover Institution at Stanford. Trustee of Stanford for nearly 50 years.{{cite web |title=Hoover@100: The Cardinal Roots of Herbert and Lou Henry Hoover |url=https://histories.hoover.org/cardinal-roots/ |website=histories.hoover.org |publisher=Hoover Institution Library & Archives |access-date=12 August 2023 |language=en}}

File:CJ_Rehnquist.tif|William Rehnquist (BA 1948, MA 1948, LLB 1952) 16th Chief Justice of the United States

File:Sandra_Day_O'Connor.jpg|Sandra Day O'Connor (BA 1950, LLB 1952), Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States

File:Official Portrait of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak (cropped).jpg|Rishi Sunak (MBA 2006), Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

File:Yukio Hatoyama 20070824.jpg|Yukio Hatoyama (PhD 1976), Former Prime Minister of Japan

File:Stephen_Breyer,_SCOTUS_photo_portrait.jpg|Stephen Breyer (BA 1959), Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States

File:Larry_Page_in_the_European_Parliament,_17.06.2009_(cropped).jpg|Larry Page (MS 1998), founder of Alphabet Inc.

File:Sergey_Brin_Ted_2010.jpg|Sergey Brin (MS 1995), founder of Alphabet Inc.

File:Re_publica_2015_-_Tag_1_(17195424118).jpg|Reed Hastings (MS 1988), founder of Netflix Inc.

File:Philknightfootball.jpg|Phil Knight (MBA 1962), founder of Nike Inc.

File:Reid_Hoffman_in_SF_2011.jpg|Reid Hoffman (BS 1990), founder of LinkedIn Corporation

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• Lowen, Rebecca S. "Transforming the university: Administrators, physicists, and industrial and federal patronage at Stanford, 1935–49." History of Education Quarterly 31.3 (1991): 365–388.
• Lowen, Rebecca S. " 'Exploiting a Wonderful Opportunity': The Patronage of Scientific Research at Stanford University, 1937–1965." Minerva (1992): 391–421. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/41820884 online].
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• Joncas, Ricard, David Neumann, and Paul V. Turner. The Campus Guide: Stanford University. Princeton Architectural Press, 2006. {{doi|10.1007/1-56898-664-5}}. {{isbn|978-1-56898-538-1}} (print); {{isbn|978-1-56898-664-7}} (online).
• Lyman, Richard W. Stanford in turmoil: Campus unrest, 1966–1972 (Stanford University Press, 2009) [https://books.google.com/books?id=R54Nnw0k-70C&dq=Stanford%E2%80%99s+Wallace+Sterling:+Portrait+of+a+Presidency,+1949%E2%80%931968&pg=PP10 online].
• Nash, George H. Herbert Hoover and Stanford University (Hoover Press, 2015) [https://books.google.com/books?id=hwnHCgAAQBAJ&dq=Herbert+Hoover+and+Stanford+University.+Nash,+George+H.+&pg=PT7 online].
• Nilan, Roxanne L., and Cassius L. Kirk Jr. Stanford's Wallace Sterling: Portrait of a Presidency 1949–1968 (Stanford Up, 2023), a major scholarly history. [https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=38294 see description].
• Tarnoff, Ben. "Better, Faster, Stronger" (review of John Tinnell, The Philosopher of Palo Alto: Mark Weisner, Xerox PARC, and the Original Internet of Things, University of Chicago Press, 347 pp.; and Malcolm Harris, Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World, Little, Brown, 708 pp.), The New York Review of Books, vol. LXX, no. 14 (21 September 2023), pp. 38–40. "[Palo Alto is] a place where the [United States'] contradictions are sharpened to their finest points, above all the defining and enduring contradictions between democratic principle and antidemocratic practice. There is nothing as American as celebrating equality while subverting it. Or as Californian." (p. 40.)

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